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The Next Common Sense: The e-Manager's Guide to Mastering Complexity
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 658
EAN: 9781857882353
ISBN: 1857882350
Label: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Manufacturer: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: December 15, 2000
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Studio: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
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Editorial Review:
Offers the 10 key management lessons essential to mstering complexity and making sense of modern corporate life.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Don't waste your time or money
Barnum would have loved this book as he relished the idea that a sucker is born every minute. I wasted both time and money on this book. If you want a far more credible model of management, get the book Beyond the Hype. For serious stories of leadership read and learn from The Working Leader. For serious exposition of complexity theory and business, buy Ralph Stacey's books.
Rating:  - "10 Scenic Vistas on the Corporate Landscape"
"The old common sense was about dealing with the discrete elements of a 'complicated' world. The next common sense is about mastering the 'complex' swirl of events and situations around us through coherence. The old world was a complicated agglomeration of many discrete items. The new world is a complex one of interdependencies and interrelationships...Our purpose in writing this book is to help you to be like Alexander the Great. When confronted with the legendary knot of tangle rope tied ... Read More
Rating: - A very useful book from the visual thinking perspective
Because of my deep personal interest in using visual thinking tools for opportunity discovery and strategic exploration, I find this book very useful and practical. I particularly like the authors' use of powerful visual metaphors to understand & to master the complexity all around us, and to chart out new strategic directions, whether in business or in life. If you are planning what you want to do with the rest of your life in our constantly changing & uncertain world - or planning the next ... Read More
Rating: - THINKING IN A NEW KEY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY!
This book reveals how to make sense of today's economic environment and organization, providing a set of ten principles or perspectives for understanding and leading organization. These principles reflect a new way of thinking and acting-a new common sense-in contrast to the old. For instance, leading entities (old) vs. guiding interactions; using mechanistic metaphors (old) vs. thinking about ecosystems; and insisting the company come first (old) vs. allowing people to be themselves. A chapter is devoted ... Read More
Rating: - An interesting view of where we are going.
Anything written by either of the two authors must be taken very seriously, and this book does not disappoint. Johan Roos is an impressive speaker and author and Mike Lissack is that rarity, a genuinely original thinker. This book is a quiet and thoughtful guide to new ideas, or "The Next Common Sense". It could also have been called the Tao of Complexity.
Whilst the book is informed by ideas associated with "complexity", the authors never fall into jargon, and the reader is introduced ... Read More
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