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It's What You Don't Know That Counts

Discover the important roles chance and uncertainty play insuccessful strategic planning. In this ingenious work, author RalphD. Stacey shows managers how their companies can benefit from theunexpected developments that impact their business and how they canprepare to creatively leverage the opportunities such developmentspresent. He explains how an appreciation of conflict and teamdialogue can help managers discover and build on the innate energyof their organizations. And he illustrates his theories withreal-world examples from Sony, Kodak, Federal Express and othernoted market innovators.

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This creative approach to successful strategic planning is based on understanding and directing the complex, often chaotic daily interactions that take place within companies. Ralph Stacey explains how an appreciation of the roles of control, conflict, and team dialogue can help managers discover and build on the innate energy of their organizations and urges managers to find a new respect for the positive power of instability and chaos.

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  • Title Managing the Unknowable: Strategic Boundaries Between Order and Chaos in Organizations
  • Author Ralph D. Stacey
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1992-11-11
  • ISBN 9781555424633 / 1555424635
  • Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.27 x 6.28 x 0.84 in (23.55 x 15.95 x 2.13 cm)
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Library of Congress subjects Management, Organizational effectiveness
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 92017306
  • Dewey Decimal Code 658.4

About the author

Ralph Douglas Stacey is a British organizational theorist and Professor of Management at Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire, in the UK and one of the pioneers of enquiring into the implications of the natural sciences of complexity for understanding human organisations and their management.

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