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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “chris mowles”
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  • Complexity and Organisations

    Researching Practice

    Edited by Kiran Chauhan, Chris Mowles ...
    Series series Complexity and Management
    Virtually everyone accepts that workplaces are complex, but there is little insight into how we might engage with complexity more skilfully. If complexity isn’t something that managers can control and leaders cannot harness, then what does a complexity perspective offer?This fourth book in the complexity series describes how taking complexity seriously can inform approaches to understanding ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Complexity

    A Key Idea for Business and Society

    by Chris Mowles ...
    Series series Key Ideas in Business and Management
    This book interprets insights from the complexity sciences to explore seven types of complexity better to understand the predictable unpredictability of social life. Drawing on the natural and social sciences, it describes how complexity models are helpful but insufficient for our understanding of complex reality.Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book develops a complex theory of action ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Complexity and Leadership

    Edited by Kiran Chauhan, Emma Crewe, Chris Mowles ...
    Series series Complexity and Management
    Leading organisations in our contemporary world means grappling with unpredictability, painful pressures and continual conflict, all in the context of an acceleration in the pace of change. We expect the impossible from heroic leaders and they rarely live up to expectations. With countless recommendations, self-help books and new concepts, scholars and management consultants often simplify and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Complexity and the Public Sector

    Edited by Chris Mowles, Karen Norman ...
    Series series Complexity and Management
    Since the early 1990s, public sector organisations have been overwhelmed with what has come to be termed New Public Management (NPM) methods. NPM idealises performance, metrics, transparency and marketisation. This book explores some of the tensions which arise in institutions where NPM methods prevail, introduces different ways of thinking about the task of managing for public good and offers a ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Complexity of Consultancy

    Exploring Breakdowns Within Consultancy Practice

    Edited by Nicholas Sarra, Karina Solsø, Chris Mowles ...
    Series series Complexity and Management
    Consultancy is a lucrative industry dependent on the production and use of tools and techniques which hold out the promise of success for the organisations it supports: transformation, or greater efficiency and effectiveness, perhaps even culture change. However, a critical and important question is whether these promises are fulfilled in everyday practice in organisations. Is it possible at all ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics

    by Ralph.D. Stacey, Chris Mowles ...
    Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics remains unique amongst strategic management textbooks by taking a refreshingly alternative look at the subject. Drawing on the sciences of complexity as well as a broad range of social scientific literature, Stacey and Mowles challenge the conceptual orthodoxy of planned strategy, focusing instead on emergence and the predictable unpredictability of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Rethinking Management

    Radical Insights from the Complexity Sciences

    by Chris Mowles ...
    What do business school graduates learn, and how helpful is it for managing in the everyday, messy reality of organisations? What does it mean to apply 'best practice', or to take up 'evidence-based management' and what kind of thinking does this imply? In Rethinking Management, Chris Mowles argues that many management courses still largely assume a linear and predictable world, when experience ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Managing in Uncertainty

    Complexity and the paradoxes of everyday organizational life

    by Chris Mowles ...
    The reality of everyday organizational life is that it is filled with uncertainty, contradictions and paradoxes. Yet leaders and managers are expected to act as though they can predict the future and bring about the impossible: that they can transform themselves and their colleagues, design different cultures, choose the values for their organization, be innovative, control conflict and have ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

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  • Tools and Techniques of Leadership and Management

    Meeting the Challenge of Complexity

    by Ralph Stacey ...
    Many of today’s books on the tools and techniques of leadership and management provide descriptions of long lists for use in decision-making, leading, coaching and project management. This book takes a completely different approach. It contests the claims that the tools and techniques are based on evidence and explains why human activities of leading and managing are simply not amenable to ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Understanding Organizational Culture

    by Mats Alvesson ...
    With his usual engaging and inimitable style, Mats Alvesson takes the reader on a riveting journey through the diverse ways in which culture itself can be understood and how these powerfully inform organizational life.′ - Blake E. Ashforth, Arizona State University′Understanding Organizational Culture comunicates complex ideas in a manner that will illuminate for those who are less familiar with ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • The Enactment of Strategic Leadership

    A Critical Perspective

    by Darko Tipurić ...
    This Open Access book explores the meaning and roles that strategy and leadership play in our lives. Based on decades of experience, the author contemplates whether we believe strategic leadership exists because it actually exists, or whether it exists because we believe it does? Both answers are true.The author argues that the duality of the essence of strategic leadership is clear. It may appear ... Read more

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  • A Complexity Perspective on Researching Organisations

    Taking Experience Seriously

    Edited by Douglas Griffin, Ralph Stacey ...
    Series series Complexity as the Experience of Organizing
    Part of the Complexity as the Experience of Organizing series, this book applies complex responsiveness theory to real-life leadership experiences. It features contributions from and details the experience of organizational practitioners, leaders, consultants and managers from various organizations through narrative accounts. It addresses questions such as:How do widespread or global patterns ... Read more

    $70.99 USD