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| New from Management Books 2000 |
Small actions can ripple through the world
SHIFTING THE PATTERNS
Memetics, complexity and organisational or individual transformation
As well as the Preface we have inclused here the contents lists of each Chapter. See also the STP page
1. Marching to Different Drums: A New Renaissance? The Product of Patterns = Patterns within Patterns = Co evolving Patterns - Pattern Cultivation: Managing with Different Drums - The Different Drum [ Part 1 ] - Conversation: The real Currency of Companies = To Catch the Patterns: The Story of Tex - The Different Drum [ Part 2 ] = Yesterday's Winners, Yesterday's Language, or A New Renaissance? - Breaking the Grip - Exercise - Summary Primary Sources
2 A Walk on the Dark Side: The Realities of Companies Joining The 'Club' - Patterns of Survival or Success? Please make a difference, but don't cause too many ripples! You are showing the rest of us up: Your success causes us a problem! Talk 'teamwork' but stand out yourself! Whatever you do, at least look busy! Busy-ness carries a premium. Don't tell it like it is: if in doubt talk it up! Criticism of the team is disloyal! Partnership, what partnership? Evaluating new arrangements with old standards! Under promise and over perform: budgets and rules! And its not just commercial companies = The Reigning Rule - Not Here it Doesn't!: Revealing the Rules - Changing the Rules - Wytch Farm = The Conditioning of Contract = Summary Primary Sources
3. The Origins Within: Exposing The Patterns of Management The Origins Within = Getting Beyond Quick Fixes & Flavours of the Month - Thinking Patterns - The Power of Paradigms = Paradigms and Perception = Exposing The Dominant Management Paradigm = More on Western Tradition: - In & Out of the Rut - A Short Story - The "Human Remains Department" - How Old Habits Die Hard = Images of Reality: The Invisible Hand of metaphor = Summary Primary Sources
4. The Pattern's Eye View: Companies as Self-Maintaining Systems Organisation and Organism: A Tale of Two Systems = Relationships Complex order Evolution Hierarchy Strategies which anticipate the future - But there are differences! = The Edge of Chaos: Order for Free! = Evolution and Revolution - The Gene's Eye View = Of Memes and Men = The Selfish Meme = Dances with Wolves: Co-evolving Levels of Selection = The Dynamics of Selection = It Can Be Luck - Closing The Circle - Summary Primary Sources
5 Patterns that Prison: An Exploration of Personal and Interpersonal Dynamics The Brain and Meme to Mind - How Perception Works = The Constraints and Liberation of Language - Cognitive Patterns = Relatedness and Relationship = Defensive Routines = The Nature of Human Systems = Summary Primary Sources
6 Stopping the World: I Want to Get On! Why 'Stop the World'? - Yes, but! = Modelling Change and Learning = The Prat Barrier = Talking Picture ; Systems Thinking to Systems Language - Expanding our Interpretative Capacity = Self-fulfilling Speaking = Creating Space = We Can get 'There' but not from 'Here'! - Summary: Primary Sources
7. Beyond the 'I' that Beholds: From 'Seeing' to 'Shifting' Patterns Beyond 'Seeing' = Putting Meaning into Company = Jumping the S-Curve: When to Interrupt Patterns = From Lock-in to Breakout: = The Discontinuity of Pattern Interrupts. - Humour - Inquiry: - Challenge and contradiction - Confrontation and conflict - Tension - Dialogue - Reframing = Relanguaging = Possibility and the Possibility System. = Is Break-out Accomplished - Beyond the I that Does: The Inner Game = The Fallacy of Independent Is - Summary Primary Sources
8 The Fifth Attribute: From Adaptive to Generative Systems Design for a difference? = Flexibility through Minimal Specification = Memetic Diversity One Company, or Many? Isolation and Interconnection = Pattern Shifting Capability = The Fifth Attribute: Pattern Shifting Leadership = Summary Primary Sources
9. Collaborate to Compete: The New Strategic Relationship Looking Out and Locking In = Order and Entropy: Food and Value Chains = The Ecology of Relationship = Communities of Collaboration 1. Repeated interactions 2. A positive sum game 3. Sufficient future value in collaboration 4. Abuse followed by immediate retaliation and forgiveness = Getting Together: Thinking Differently About Partnerships = The Three R's of Partnering First: Rationale Second: Relationship Third; Rules = CRINE: A Shifting Industry Pattern? = Transforming the Established Patterns of Competition and Collaboration = Summary Primary Sources
10. When Butterflies Flap Their Wings: The Illumination of Pattern: A New View? = Small change - Big difference? = Slaves to, or Shifters of, Patterns? = Where Butterflies Flap their Wings, People Infect Minds! = Breaking Out of the Cocoon: Existential Fears to Existential Breakthroughs = Bringing Forth a World: Letting the Genie out of the Bottle = The End of a Beginning? = Primary Sources
Shifting the Patterns will be published in June 1998 by Management Books 2000 at £14.99. To order, or for more information:
