Product Description
Dennis Sherwood's Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Manager's Guide to Applying Systems Thinking is a wealth of tips and advice on everything from managing a busy back office to negotiating an outsourcing deal. The book argues that only by taking a broad view can we avoid the dangers of a silo mentality, in which a fix here simply shifts the problem there, and organizational myopia, in which a fix now gives rise to a much bigger problem to fix later. Systems thinking can help you tame the complexity of real-world problems by providing a structured way to balance broad views with a selection of relevant details, allowing you to accurately "see the forest for the trees." With this handy guide, you can turn the old adage on its head and get ahead in business at the same time!
About the Author
Dennis Sherwood was for twelve years a consulting partner with Coopers & Lybrand and was subsequently an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs in London, a partner in Bossard Consultants, and Vice President of SRI Consulting. Educated at the universities of Cambridge, Yale and California, and a Sloan Fellow, with Distinction, of the London Business School, he is now the Managing Director of Organica Consulting which specialised in building competitive advantage through innovation whose clients include Thames Water, Nestle, National Grid, Pearson TV, The Defence Evaluation & Research Agency, Wedgewood, and Yorkshire Electricity. He is a is well-known on the conference circuit and is the author of five previous books including Smart Things to Know About Innovation and Unlock Your Mind. Visit www.organicaconsulting.com for more information.
