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“…it’s worth reading…” — Professional Manager, January 2002
“Of all the people Tom and I quoted in In Search of Excellence Karl Weick was hands down the most influential. As a researcher and thought leader on matters organizational and strategic, Karl gets an eleven on [...]
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“…many valuable ideas…” (Long Range Planning, Vol 37 2004)
This book offers a practical, fact-based approach to explain how enterprises deliver performance over time. Rigorous methods explain how to quantify the growth, decline and interdependence within the organisation’s resources and capabilities as well as [...]
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Russell Ackoff, professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost management thinkers, has written a very straightforward book based on systems thinking, an approach that views the corporation as an organic whole swimming in its environment rather [...]
From Publishers Weekly
When Thoreau’s injunction to simplify, simplify, is translated into the context of business management, the result is this labyrinthine treatise. George, author of Lean Six Sigma, and “complexity expert” Wilson contend that overcomplication is an insidious drain on businesses. A proliferation of product and service [...]
Editorial Reviews
Review
“…many valuable ideas…” (Long Range Planning, Vol 37 2004)
This book offers a practical, fact-based approach to explain how enterprises deliver performance over time. Rigorous methods explain how to quantify the growth, decline and interdependence within the organisation’s resources and capabilities as well as the [...]
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"I was introduced to requisite organization by Elliott Jaques when we met in 1979. His concepts underpinned the consultancy work that many of us at the Brunel Institute of Organizational and Social Studies (BIOSS) undertook at that time. "Much of my own consultancy work then and [...]
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From Publishers Weekly
When Thoreau’s injunction to simplify, simplify, is translated into the context of business management, the result is this labyrinthine treatise. George, author of Lean Six Sigma, and “complexity expert” Wilson contend that overcomplication is an insidious drain on businesses. A proliferation of product and [...]
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
When Thoreau’s injunction to simplify, simplify, is translated into the context of business management, the result is this labyrinthine treatise. George, author of Lean Six Sigma, and “complexity expert” Wilson contend that overcomplication is an insidious drain on businesses. A proliferation of product and [...]
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
When Thoreau’s injunction to simplify, simplify, is translated into the context of business management, the result is this labyrinthine treatise. George, author of Lean Six Sigma, and “complexity expert” Wilson contend that overcomplication is an insidious drain on businesses. A proliferation of product and [...]
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