Managing the unknowable : strategic boundaries between order and chaos in organizations

Preface. The Author. New Mind--Sets for Managing the Future. The Failure of Conventional Management: Using Orderly Strategies in a Disorderly World. Stable Instability: Creating the Far--from--Equillibium Organization. Creativity and Continuous Chaos: Discovering the Undiscovered in Complex Organizations. Strategic Thinking and Continuous Contention: Confronting an Open--Anded Future. Strategic Agenda: Deciphering the Patterns in Goals and Actions. Strategic Control: Managing the Boundary Between Plans and Change. Participation, Heirarchy, and Stability: Finding the Middle Ground. Steps Toward Managing an Unkowable Future. Note. Index.