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  • Paperback: 232 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (22 Jul 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415185300
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415185301
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
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Dr Russell L. Ackoff, Chairman, The Institute for Interactive Management, USA
'It is the nature of systemic thinking to yield many different views of the same thing and the same view of many different things. This book offers such a point of view of systemic thinking which is both important and very rewarding for one to take into account.' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Vice Chancellor Brenda Gourlay, University of Natal, South Africa.
'Robert Flood describes complex systemic theory and practice in a clear, comprehensible manner, thereby bringing a better understanding of the world and ourselves to his readers. If you are interested in learning and growing, if you wish to manage better, then read this insightful and thought-provoking book.' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Original, profound, yet easily understood & operationalised, 17 Oct 1999
The content of Professor Flood's latest book is original and profound, but easily understood and operationalised, therefore this book can be considered a "must have" by academics, students, interventionists, consultants and managers alike. It successfully elucidates how the concepts of Systems Theory, Complexity Theory, Organisational Learning and Organisational Intervention are inextricably intertwined.

There is a significant degree of emergent synergy that arises from the complementarist use of the Senge's approach (as described within the "Fifth Discipline") when used in conjunction with Flood's guiding> frameworks for organisational intervention and improvement. In isolation, Senge provided his readers with guidance on organisational learning - but provided no pragmatic steps to guide organisational analysis and the actual selection and use of improvement strategies. Conversely, Flood's previous writings provided a guiding framework for facilitating organisational improvement but lacked the organisational learning approaches that are simultaneously required if the need for organisational improvement (i.e. change) is to be recognised, validated, operationalised, reflexively critiqued and assimilated as part of a revised organisational paradigm. Empirical studies have clearly demonstrated that without the tools to facilitate organisational learning, it is quite likely that the need and desire to implement change strategies will be attenuated by organisational defence mechanisms. (See the work of Argyris in this regard). Therefore, the augmentation of organisational improvement frameworks with organisational learning offers interventionists an enhanced degree of success.

Thus, by effectively combining his interventional strategies with the Senge's organisational learning strategies, Flood has successfully created a pragmatic approach that is more potent than the sum of its constituent parts. The emergent synergy is not by any means a coincidental by-product of the amalgam. Flood clearly explains how the inescapable and tangible manifestations of Complexity Theory require us to "learn our way into an unknowable future". Flood's book also effectively prepares the reader for the adaptations that will be necessary in contending with a dynamically changing organisational landscape.

This book is highly recommended to all those with an interest in organisational learning, change management, systems theory and complexity theory.

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4.0 out of 5 stars An essential companion to Senge's works., 20 Feb 2001
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This book broadens the scope of the work covered by Senge et al. It adds to it rather than detracting from it. It also provides a good bibliography for further reading around this area.

It is an easy and interesting read.

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