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Beyond dispute : the invention of team syntegrity

Title
Beyond dispute : the invention of team syntegrity / Stafford Beer.
Author
Beer, Stafford.
Publication
Chichester ; New York : Wiley, 1994.

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Description
xi, 367 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
The managerial cybernetics of organization
Uniform Title
Managerial cybernetics of organization.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-359) and index.
Contents
  • Pt. 1. The Story of an Organizational Idea. Ch. 1. A Long Gestation. Ch. 2. On Protocols. Ch. 3. Path-Finding Experiments. Ch. 4. The Academic Milieu. Ch. 5. The Corporate Scene. Ch. 6. In the Community -- Pt. 2. Enhancing Procedures. Ch. 7. Protocols Revisited. Ch. 8. Vexed Questions of Allocation. Ch. 9. Developmental Planning. Ch. 10. Governance or Government? -- Pt. 3. The Form of the Model. Ch. 11. The Structure of Icosahedral Space. Ch. 12. The Dynamics of Icosahedral Space. Ch. 13. Self-Reference in Icosahedral Space -- Pt. 4. Epilogue. Ch. 14. The Concept of Recursive Consciousness -- Pt. 5. Collaborators' Surplus -- Surplus One: Reverberating Networks: Modelling information propagation in syntegration by spectral analysis / Assad Jalali -- Surplus Two: From Prototype to Protocol: Design for doing / Joe Truss -- Surplus Three: Pliny The Later: Elective selection / Josephine Hancock -- Surplus Four: You Drive For Show But You Putt For Dough: A facilitator's perspective / Alan Pearson.
  • Surplus Five: One Man's Signal is Another Man's Noise: Another facilitator's perspective / David Beatty -- Surplus Six: About Face: A turn for better planning / Joe Truss -- Surplus Seven: The Very Model of a Modern System-General: How the viable system model actually works / Allenna Leonard.
ISBN
0471944513
LCCN
94002439
OCLC
  • 29751468
  • ocm29751468
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries