The heart of enterprise : the managerial cybernetics of organization

CONCEPTS, PERCEPTS, PRECEPTS. An Entry. Double Entry. Emergency Exit. The Exit. Bases of Viability. THE VIABLE SYSTEM. Freedom. Constraint. Inside and Now. Outside and Then. Metasystem. VENTURES IN VIABILITY. Measurement. Plots... ...And Plans. Calm and Alarm. Life and Death. THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT: Notes on Implementation. On Success. Graphical Distortions of the Model. Substantive Elaborations of the Model. Cyberfilter and the Time Barrier. The Evolution of a Management Cybernetics Process. Appendices. Index.