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The Paradox of Control in Organizations (Complexity and Emergence in Organizations)
Phi Streatfield Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0415250323 |
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In this book Philip Streatfield reflects on his own experience as a manager to explore the question - who, or what is 'in control' in an organization. Adopting the perspective of complex responsive processes developed in the first two volumes of this series, the author takes self-organization and emergence as central themes in thinking about life in organizations. He focuses on the tension between spontaneously forming patterns of conversation, and intentional actions, arguing that the order of organizations emerges through a combination of collective interaction and individual intentions.
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Complexity & Paradox (Express Exec)
Jim Underwood Manufacturer: Capstone ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1841122254 |
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Fast track route to mastering highly complex environmentsCovers the fundamentals of complexity, from encouraging iconoclastic behavior and setting up formal complexity training to using scenarios and gathering intelligence
Examples and lessons from some of the world's most sophisticated businesses, including Microsoft, and ideas from the smartest thinkers including H. Igor Ansoff, Richard A D'Aveni and Peter Schwartz
Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide
ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books. These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companies and ideas from the world's smartest thinkers.
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Fast track route to mastering highly complex environments. Covers the fundamentals of complexity management, from encouraging iconoclastic behavior and setting up formal complexity training to using scenarios and gathering intelligence. Examples and lessons from some of the world's most sophisticated businesses, including Microsoft, and ideas from the smartest thinkers including H. Igor Ansoff, Richard A D'Aveni and Peter Schwartz. Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide.
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Galap: Guidelines for Authentik Lives in Agez of Paradox (Complexity and the Human Learning)
Copernicus again Manufacturer: Writers Club Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0595096905 |
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In an age where fluidity and complexity have finally been recognized as an inherent part of human design, it is time we develop moral codes and mythologies, paradoxical (both/and) in nature, that replace the ill-suited, traditional binary (either/or) codes we've always cherished. Copernicus again's Galap – guidelines for authentik lives in agez of paradox – provides such appropriate new beliefs; congruent with our immense and variable potential. Galap will surely startle some into disbelief. But for those ready to awaken to a fuller and more meaningful humanity, Galap will begin to provide the legitimization individuals and cultures need to explore, experience, and engage a most robust experience of the human condition. Copernicus again sets a new standard – a presently, unbelievably high standard – and holy books will never be the same.Customer Reviews:
Making religion relevant.......2001-05-17
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The Paradox Principles: How High Performance Companies Manage Chaos Complexity and Contradiction to Achieve Superior Results
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Trade ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0786304995 |
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Tumultuous changes affecting corporations have left managers and employees reeling from the shocks and searching for the holy grail of management solutions to set their companies straight. But the techniques-du-jour or programs-of-the-month have done nothing but confuse employees, create chaos in the organization, and cause everyone to lose focus of the true strategic objectives. The key to success is not just some new technique or management trend. It's just not that simple. The high-performance organizations of tomorrow must learn how to deftly balance the tensions and conflicts that challenge the progress and effectiveness of any large enterprise. The Paradox Principles shows managers how to face those conflicts and use paradox as a dynamic tool to create balance and focus within an organization. Lessons learned from executives at over 200 high-performance companies and the collective experience of the Price Waterhouse Change Integration Team show managers how to achieve unparalleled success by better managing the paradoxes inherent in their industry, organization, and strategy. The authors also show managers facing unchartered waters how to: create a high performance organization that is focused and strategically balanced; develop management styles with the best blend of operational efficiency and strategic effectiveness; align the actions of everyone through the use of fewer, more effective, performance measures; manage the complexity and chaos caused by the level of change buffeting all organizations today; move beyond all the hand-wringing about behaviors and beliefs to create a new and positive culture in the organization.Customer Reviews:
Simple Lessons.......1999-05-28
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Transition to spatiotemporal chaos can resolve the paradox of enrichment [An article from: Ecological Complexity]
S. Petrovskii , B.L. Li , and H. Malchow Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000RQZK5M |
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This digital document is a journal article from Ecological Complexity, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Beyond Complexity: Paradoxes and Coping Strategies in Managerial Life
Willem Koot , and Ida Sabelis Manufacturer: Rozenberg Publishers,Netherlands ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 9051706391 |
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The Paradox Principles : How High Performance Companies Manage Chaos Complexity and Contradiction to Achieve Superior Results
Price Waterhouse Change Integration Team Staff Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Trade ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000K3KRV4 |
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Study Guide and Workbook to Accompany Principles of Managerial Finance
Stanley G. Eakins Manufacturer: Addison Wesley Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0673980634 |
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Study guide workbook to accompany Gitman Principles of managerial finance, eighth edition
Stanley G Eakins Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006QX8LQ |
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Protecting People and Buildings from Terrorism: Technology Transfer for Blast-Effects Mitigation
Committee for Oversight and Assessment of Blast-effects and Related Research , and National Research Council Manufacturer: Natl Academy Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0309082862 |
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Agricultural and Federal Census Schedules, 1850-1880, Caenarvon Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Manufacturer: Masthof Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1883294819 |
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Detailed statistics on life between 1850 and 1880 cover how many "milch" cows, working oxen, bushels of wheat and Indian corn, pounds of tobacco, bales of ginned cotton, value of orchard products, pounds of butter and beeswax, gallons of win, dozens of eggs, total farm acreage, dollar value of farm livestock, wages. Names, ages and occupations are listed for residents.
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The Frog A Practical Guide A Dissection Manual
T.A. G. Wells Manufacturer: Dover Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000L1X154 |
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The Frog: A Practical Guide: A Dissection Manual
Thomas Arthur Goodwill Wells Manufacturer: Dover Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0486617173 |
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Antarctica: Exploration, Perception and Metaphor
Simpson-Housley Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0415082250 |
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"A scene so wildly and awfully desolate . . . it cannot fail to impress me with gloomy thoughts" so Robert F. Scott perceived the stark Antarctic in 1905. Yet the environment is more than its physical appearance expectation and subjective response, as much as direct stimuli, play a part in perceptions.
Antarctica traces images of the continent from early invented maps up to Roald Amundsen's arrival. Paul Simpson-Housley approaches Antarctica from the perspective of both sea and land explorers, describing their differing perceptions as created by error and desire. Explorers returned with images of both beauty and terror. Simpson-Housley analyzes their writings in diaries, books and poetry. Developing this theme, and focusing on the realist paintings of Edward Wilson and the symbolic poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, he discusses how artistic images were created from first-hand experience of the landscape, as well as contemporary reports and literature.
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Antarctica : Exploration, Perception and Metaphor
Paul Simpson-Housley Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000V2NPQI |
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Nanophysics and Nanotechnology: An Introduction to Modern Concepts in Nanoscience (Physics Textbook)
Edward L. Wolf Manufacturer: Wiley-VCH ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 3527406514 |
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With the second edition of his highly successful textbook 'Nanophysics and Nanotechnology', the author has once more provided a unique, self-contained introduction to the physical concepts, techniques and applications of nanoscale systems by covering its entire spectrum from the latest examples right up to single-electron and molecular electronics. The book is basically at the level of an upper level undergraduate engineering or science student. New sections have been added on the use of DNA as an organizing stratagem in self-assembly, silicon nanowires, comments on the new success toward human cloning, the achievement of self-replication in a primitive set of electromechanical robots, recognition in the extra chapters of the acceleration toward alternative forms of nanoelectronics. Additional problems have also been provided.Customer Reviews:
Excellent textbook.......2007-03-19
fundamental approach to the field.......2005-01-03
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Nanoscience: Nanotechnologies and Nanophysics
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 3540286160 |
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Nanotechnologies and nanosciences are a fast-developing field of research, which sit at the point of convergence of several disciplines (physics, chemistry, biology, mechanics, etc.). This practically-oriented overview is designed to provide students and researchers with essential information on both the tools of manufacture and specific features of the nanometric scale, as well as applications within the most active fields (electronics, magnetism, information storage, biology). Specific applications and techniques covered include nanolithography, STM and AFM, nanowires and supramolecules, molecular electronics, pptronics, and simulation. Each section of the book devotes considerable space to industrial applications and prospective developments.
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Nanophysics, Nanoclusters And Nanodevices
Manufacturer: Nova Science Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1594548528 |
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Skipping Christmas
John Grisham Manufacturer: Doubleday ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0385508417 Release Date: 2002-10-29 |
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John Grisham turns a satirical eye on the overblown ritual of the festive holiday season, and the result is Skipping Christmas, a modest but funny novel about the tyranny of December 25. Grisham's story revolves around a typical middle-aged American couple, Luther and Nora Krank. On the first Sunday after Thanksgiving they wave their daughter Blair off to Peru to work for the Peace Corps, and they suddenly realize that "for the first time in her young and sheltered life Blair would spend Christmas away from home."Luther Krank sees his daughter's Christmas absence as an opportunity. He estimates that "a year earlier, the Luther Krank family had spent $6,100 on Christmas," and have "precious little to show for it." So he makes an executive decision, telling his wife, friends, and neighbors that "we won't do Christmas." Instead, Luther books a 10-day Caribbean cruise. But things start to turn nasty when horrified neighbors get wind of the Krank's subversive scheme and besiege the couple with questions about their decision.
Grisham builds up a funny but increasingly terrifying picture of how this tight-knit community turns on the Kranks, who find themselves under increasing pressure to conform. As the tension mounts, readers may wonder whether they will manage to board their plane on Christmas day. Skipping Christmas is Grisham-lite, with none of the serious action or drama of his legal thrillers, but a funny poke at the craziness of Christmas. --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk
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Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That’s just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they’ll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on Hemlock Street without a rooftop Frosty; they won’t be hosting their annual Christmas Eve bash; they aren’t even going to have a tree. They won’t need one, because come December 25 they’re setting sail on a Caribbean cruise. But, as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences–and isn’t half as easy as they’d imagined.Customer Reviews:
A Good Study in Modern Insanity.......2007-08-01
Clever and entertaining.......2007-06-14
A painfully predictable screenplay.......2007-02-26
Skipping Christmas.......2007-02-20
BIG WASTE OF TIME.......2007-01-25
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Una navidad diferente (Skipping Christmas)
John Grisham Manufacturer: Suma de letras,Punto De Lectura ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 8466312099 |
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Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that this year, they'll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the only house on the street without decorations and they won't be hosting their annual Christmas Eve bash. They won't even need a tree, because on December 25th they will set sail on a Caribbean cruise. But skipping Christmas isn't half as easy as they'd imagined. Something happens that prompts the Kranks to jump back into Christmas at the last minute.Description in Spanish: Imagínese un año sin celebrar las Navidades. Nada de fiestas, comidas opíparas o regalos no deseados. Eso es precisamente lo que Luther y Nora Krank tienen planeado: por primera vez en su vida, han decidido celebrar la Navidad de un modo muy diferente. Su casa será la única del barrio que no luzca decoración alguna; sus vecinos y amigos se quedarán sin la fiesta que suelen organizar cada año; por no comprar, este año ni siquiera un abeto navideño adornará su salón. No lo necesitarán, porque el 25 de diciembre los Krank partirán rumbo al sol del Caribe. Sin embargo, como van a descubrir, romper con una tradición tan arraigada es mucho más complicado de lo que parece: su cambio de planes tendrá consecuencias sorprendentes.
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John Grisham Collection: Set Of 18 Novels, Legal Suspense and Fiction (A Time to Kill, The Firm, Pelican Brief, The Client, The Chamber, The Rainmaker, Runaway Jury, The Partner, Street Lawyer, The Testament, The Brethren, Painted House, Skipping Christmas, The Summons, Bleachers, King of Torts, Last Juror, The Broker)
John Grisham Manufacturer: Island Books/Dell ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000MS6OUU |
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Skipping Christmas
Manufacturer: Doubleday ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0739420712 |
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"Skipping Christmas," Sounds Like Trouble.......2005-01-20
laughting yourself through Christmas.......2004-12-13
CHRISTMAS IS EVEN MORE SPECIAL .......2004-08-07
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Skipping Christmas a Novel Audio Cassette
Manufacturer: Books on Tape ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette ASIN: 0736688560 |
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3 cassettes that play for 4.5 Hrs
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Skipping Christmas
John Grisham Manufacturer: Doubleday ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: B000NPH7DK |
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Skipping Christmas
John Grisham Manufacturer: Doubleday ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NXYZT6 |
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Skipping Christmas (Film Tie-In)
John Grisham Manufacturer: Arrow ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OH5PCM |
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Skipping Christmas/Christmas with the Kranks : A Novel
ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000HHPGQE |
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2 John Grisham paperback book set: THE SUMMONS and SKIPPING CHRISTMAS
John Grisham Manufacturer: Dell ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000QB3FPU |
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