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Preface | |
Background | |
The Nature of Systems | p. 3 |
Types of Systems and Models | p. 21 |
Types of Management | p. 45 |
Process: Planning, Design, Implementation, and Learning | |
Formulating the Mess: Sensing and Making Sense of the Situation | p. 63 |
Ends Planning: Where to Go | p. 81 |
Means Planning: How to Get There | p. 107 |
Resource Planning: What's Needed to Get There | p. 131 |
Implementation and Control: Doing It and Learning | p. 157 |
Designs: Democracy, Economy, and Flexibility | |
A Democratic Hierarchy: The Circular Organization | p. 179 |
The Internal Market Economy | p. 207 |
The Permanently Structured Multidimensional Organization | p. 225 |
Change: Reformations and Transformations | |
Panaceas, Fads, and Quick Fixes | p. 251 |
Organizational Development and Transformational Leadership | p. 273 |
App. A: A Short Bibliography on Systems | p. 293 |
An Application of Interactive Planning | p. 295 |
References and Sources | p. 317 |
Index | p. 323 |
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