Future think
Subtitle: how to think clearly in a time of change
By: Edie Weiner and Arnold Brown ; foreword by Jay McIntosh
Contributors: Brown, Arnold, 1927-2014
Edition: Custom ed.
Publisher: Pearson Custom Pub.; Pearson Prentice Hall
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780536973788
Subjects: Organizational change; Social change; Organizational effectiveness; Success in business; Forecasting; Changement organisationnel; Efficacité organisationnelle; Succès dans les affaires; Prévision
Notes: "Taken from Future think : how to think clearly in a time of change by Edie Weiner and Arnold Brown."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: pt. I. Personal traps : individual biases and blocks to seeing and understanding change; title: Looking through alien eyes; title: Trend/countertrend; title: Substituting the spiral for the pendulum; title: The extremes inform the middle; title: pt. II. Organizational traps : institutional biases and blocks to responding to change; title: Efficiency breeds vulnerability; title: The multiplier effect of new distribution channels; title: Entropy; title: Integrity begets quality; title: pt. III. Springing the trap : seeing the big picture; title: The law of large numbers; title: Demography; title: Compromise versus lowest common denominators; title: pt. IV. Imagining the way : using metaphors to free your mind; title: The three-legged stools of the political agenda; title: Right-of-way; title: Football meets shopping; title: Managing by harnessing evolution; title: Self-defeating and self-fulfilling prophecies; title: Conclusion.