Rethinking management
Subtitle: radical insights from complexity science
By: Chris Mowles
Publisher: Gower Pub.; Gower
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781409429333; 9781409429340
Subjects: Performance; Leadership; Management; Strategic planning
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why write this book?; title: Consultancy as practical engagement in organisational politics; title: Leaders, managers and consultants as researchers : using the self as an instrument of research; title: Theories of leadership as magical-mythical thinking; title: Charisma and passion-visioning the future; title: Choosing organisational values, changing culture; title: Choosing the future; title: Performance management and targets-control, resistance, improvisation; title: Reconsidering leadership and management drawing on radical insights from the complexity sciences.