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Striking a Balance: Complexity and Knowledge Landscapes (Paperback)

by Johan Roos (Author), David Oliver (Author)
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  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. (1 Sep 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0077095561
  • ISBN-13: 978-0077095567
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,009,001 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This volume is designed to help managers respond better to the late 20th century complex business environment by balancing the need to adapt to new requirements in their competitive environments while seizing new opportunities to shape these environments.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A real must if you are involved with business change..., 25 Jan 2000
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... and we all are!

Roos and Oliver manage to use the images of 'knowledge landscapes' to help us to identify where individual, communital or organisational 'knowledge landscapes' are. It helps us narrow or broaden our horizon and, in short, to find a balance in our organisations to better adapt (and lead!) the business we are in.

I found that after reading this excellent book I personally used knowledge lanscape images in all my work with clients and colleagues and -he, why not!- in my private life.

A 10 out of 10.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An actionable perspective on dealing with complexity, 26 Oct 1999
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Roos and Oliver put an amazingly fresh and actionable perspective on the important issue of dealing with complexity and ambiguity in organizations. They do a great job in striking a difficult balance by making their serious conceptual thinking an entertaining and exciting reading, never becoming too academic or too trivial. A rare bird in today's glut of cheap management advice!
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5.0 out of 5 stars The only "how-to" worth reading., 26 Aug 1999
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"Finally, a book which captures the 'how to' of adaptive tension. The notion of balance is important to corporations, and Oliver and Roos have expressed it in a manner that any practicing manager can put into action."

-Michael Lissack, Editor-in-Chief, Emergence: A Journal of Complexity Issues In Organizations and Management

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