Draws on science, spiritual values, psychology, the cutting edge of management thought with leading companies which employ Fifth Discipline methods. This edition contains more than 100 pages of material about how companies are actually using and benefiting from Fifth Discipline practices.
This pragmatic guide shows how to create an organization of learners. The stories in this book show that businesses, schools, agencies and even communities can undo their learning disabilities and achieve superior performance.
A guide to applying the new science to organisations, and our lives. This book shows how examples of non-linear networks and organizations are flourishing in the modern world. It presents examples like the E-bay, search engines and viral marketing works which are based on self-organising dynamics.
Offers ten guidelines to help key employees and knowledge workers influence upper management. This book demonstrates the best way to move ideas through an organization; outlines the principles that facilitate knowledge management; explains how people learn on the job; and discusses how larger organizations can leverage their bigness .
Stacey's work examines how the 'knowledge economy' can be seen in a new light when considered from a complexity perspective. It stresses the importance of relationships as a source of, and influence on, information and knowledge creation.
Radical and hopeful, synthesises cutting-edge thinking, firsthand knowledge and ancient wisdom. Gives the reader an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning.
Can a good company become a great one and, if so, how? After a five-year research project, the author concludes that good to great can and does happen. Here, he uncovers the underlying variables that enable any type of organization to make the leap from good to great while other organizations remain only good.
Establishes the vocabulary and concepts in the field of knowledge management. This book examines how various types of companies can understand, analyze, measure, and manage their intellectual assets, turning corporate wisdom into market value. It also presents an approach to catalogue and store knowledge.