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Rethinking the Fifth Discipline

Learning Within the Unknowable
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Rethinking the Fifth Discipline by Robert Louis Flood offers a clear and critical examination of the renowned management approach known as The Fifth Discipline. The book advances systemic thinking by introducing key developments essential for fostering creativity and organisational transformation within learning organisations. It provides strategic planners, change agents, and consultants with crucial insights into the work of influential thinkers such as Senge, Bertalanffy, Beer, Ackoff, Checkland, and Churchman. Readers will find guidance on redefining management practices through systemic thinking, alongside practical advice for selecting, implementing, and assessing improvement strategies.
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This book is ideal for professionals involved in strategic planning, organisational change, and consultancy, as well as academics and students interested in business management and systemic approaches to organisational development.

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Explains the ideas of The Fifth Discipline and critiques the ideas in straightforward terms. Flood establishes crucial developments in this area in the context of the learning organisation, including creativity and organisational change.

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The Fifth Discipline is one of the very few approaches to management that has attained a position in the International Hall of Fame. Robert Louis Flood’s book explains and critiques the ideas in straightforward terms. Rethinking the Fifth Discipline makes significant and fundamental improvements to the core discipline of systemic thinking.

It establishes crucial developments in this area within the context of the learning organisation, including creativity and organisational transformation. It is therefore a very important text for strategic planners, organisational change agents, and consultants.

Key features of this work include a review and critique of The Fifth Discipline and systemic thinking, an introduction to the gurus of systemic thinking—Senge, Bertalanffy, Beer, Ackoff, Checkland, and Churchman—a redefinition of management through systemic thinking, a guide to choosing, implementing, and evaluating improvement strategies, and practical animation.

Robert Louis Flood is a renowned and authoritative expert in the field of management. He has implemented systemic management in a wide range of organisations across many continents and has lectured by invitation in twenty-five countries, including Japan and the USA. Professor Flood has featured on many radio and TV programmes. His book Beyond TQM (Wiley) was nominated for the IMC Management Book of the Year 1993.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780415185301

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 July 1999

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 4 Tables, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 430g

Pages: 232

About the Author

Robert Louis Flood is a renowned and authoritative expert in the field of management. He has implemented systemic management in a wide range of organisations in many continents and lectured by invitation in twenty-five countries, including Japan and the USA. Professor Flood has featured on a number of radio and TV programmes. His book Beyond TQM (Wiley) was nominated for the 1993 MCA Management Book of the Year.

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