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Navigating into the Unknown
A New Way for Management, Governance, and Leadership
As we face times of rapid social and technological change, the future may seem like a horizon approaching too quickly. In a few years, almost everything will be different: what we do, how we do it, and why we do it; how we produce and consume; how we conduct research; how we teach and learn; how we share information, communicate, and cooperate; how we work—and how we live. How do we deal with these dizzying transformations in business, politics, and society? As management expert Fredmund Malik shows, great changes also open up great possibilities, pushing aside the old and creating opportunities for the new. Management, as Malik understands it, is the task of taking advantage of these possibilities. This book is a call to clear-sightedness and personal courage among all managers and leaders. It is a chart for navigating the Great Transformation21, Malik’s paradigm for understanding this new world; it is a chart for navigating the future as an open horizon.
152 pages | 2 color plates | 4 1/2 x 6 9/10 | © 2016
Economics and Business: Business--Business Economics and Management Studies
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Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Why we must revolutionize our thinking
Observations
Chapter 2: The Great Transformation21
A Sign of Our Times?
From the Old World to the New
A Complete change
The Old World of 1997
“Classical Management”: an Obsolescent Model
Almost Everything Will Change
Birth Pangs of a New World
Economics Is Not Enough
A Crisis of Dysfunction
The REvolution of Organizations
Chapter 3: The Basic Law of Change
A Map of Growth, Uncertainty, and Creative Destruction
Navigating into the Unknown
Not One but Three Strategies Needed
Substitution and Experiencing Creative Destruction
Fundamental Transformations
Being Ahead of Change
Chapter 4: The Drivers of Transformation
Demographics
Ecology
Science and Technology
Economics and Debt
Complexity as the Main Driver
Chapter 5: Complexity – a Raw Material of the New World
Limits to the Old Ways of Thinking
What Is Complexity? What is Variety?
Inconceivable yet Manageable
Simple and Complex Systems
Complicated or Complex?
Chapter 6: Systems Out of Control?
New Governance by Cybernetics
Communication and Control
Cybernetics for Self-Capabilities
Doing Business Is Not Enough
Chapter 7: Complexity for the Functioning of Organizations
Two Levels of Functioning
Operational and Management Tasks
Constants in Change: Master Controls
How Master Controls Work
Navigation Assistants for the Great Transition
Chapter 8: Heuristics: Navigation Principles for New Territory
Principles for Assessing a Situation in Circumstances of Uncertainty
Principles for Control Capacity and the Shaping of Relationships
Principles for Information
Principles for Persuasiveness
Chapter 9: From Disruption to New Destinations
On Dealing with Limitations
When Something Is New: Managing by Instructions
Not Only Communication but also Meta-Communication
Managing Your Boss and Colleagues
Management as a Passion
Epilog
Sources
Selected Readings by Fredmund Malik
Index
Chapter 1: Why we must revolutionize our thinking
Observations
Chapter 2: The Great Transformation21
A Sign of Our Times?
From the Old World to the New
A Complete change
The Old World of 1997
“Classical Management”: an Obsolescent Model
Almost Everything Will Change
Birth Pangs of a New World
Economics Is Not Enough
A Crisis of Dysfunction
The REvolution of Organizations
Chapter 3: The Basic Law of Change
A Map of Growth, Uncertainty, and Creative Destruction
Navigating into the Unknown
Not One but Three Strategies Needed
Substitution and Experiencing Creative Destruction
Fundamental Transformations
Being Ahead of Change
Chapter 4: The Drivers of Transformation
Demographics
Ecology
Science and Technology
Economics and Debt
Complexity as the Main Driver
Chapter 5: Complexity – a Raw Material of the New World
Limits to the Old Ways of Thinking
What Is Complexity? What is Variety?
Inconceivable yet Manageable
Simple and Complex Systems
Complicated or Complex?
Chapter 6: Systems Out of Control?
New Governance by Cybernetics
Communication and Control
Cybernetics for Self-Capabilities
Doing Business Is Not Enough
Chapter 7: Complexity for the Functioning of Organizations
Two Levels of Functioning
Operational and Management Tasks
Constants in Change: Master Controls
How Master Controls Work
Navigation Assistants for the Great Transition
Chapter 8: Heuristics: Navigation Principles for New Territory
Principles for Assessing a Situation in Circumstances of Uncertainty
Principles for Control Capacity and the Shaping of Relationships
Principles for Information
Principles for Persuasiveness
Chapter 9: From Disruption to New Destinations
On Dealing with Limitations
When Something Is New: Managing by Instructions
Not Only Communication but also Meta-Communication
Managing Your Boss and Colleagues
Management as a Passion
Epilog
Sources
Selected Readings by Fredmund Malik
Index