The Wiggly World of Organization av Chris Rodgers

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<P>The well-ordered, fully aligned view of organization and management practice, with its unfailingly positive results, bears little relationship to the world that managers and others experience every day. This straight-line, ¿do this and you¿ll get that¿ idealization is far removed from the wiggly reality. Despite this, the former continues to dominate the ways in which management is spoken about and judged in formal organizational arenas and wider society. This creates unrealistic expectations of what managers (from CEO to the front line) can sensibly achieve independently of the actions of others. Crucially, too, it distorts the ways in which they and others account formally for their actions. And so, the fantasy continues. <BR><BR>Against this background, the book offers a radically different way of thinking about, and engaging with, the <I>irreducible </I>complexity of organization and management practice. Using straightforward language throughout, it sets out to help managers and