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Diagnosing the System for Organizations
Stafford Beer (Author)
9780471951360, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 28 September 1994
176 pages
23 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.312 kg
"Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world?s most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his thinking with a flair that is unmatched. His writing is as much art as it is science. He is the most viable system I know." "If ... anyone can make it [Operations Research] understandably readable and positively interesting it is Stafford Beer ... everyone in management ... should be grateful to him for using clear and at times elegant English and?even elegant diagrams." In Brain of the Firm and The Heart of Enterprise Stafford Beer worked out the scientific laws that govern any viable system. They constitute the basis for this book which is concerned solely with the application of those laws to the understanding of any particular enterprise. In the form of a Handbook or Manager's Guide, Diagnosing the System deals with the fundamental problem of management?how to cope with complexity itself. It shows you how to design (or redesign) an enterprise in conformity with the laws of viability, and will help you to diagnose faults in your organizational structure.
—Dr Russell L Ackoff, The Institute for Interactive Management, Pennsylvania, USA.
—The Economist
What this Book is i
Introduction v
Foreword ix
The Viable System
Section One 1
Section Two 19
Section Three 37
Section Four 55
Section Five 73
Section Six 91
Section Seven 107
Section Eight 123
Completion of the Model 135
Appendix 137
Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
