{"product_id":"the-poverty-of-strategy-organization-in-the-shadows-of-technology-hardback-9781107150324","title":"The Poverty of Strategy; Organization in the Shadows of Technology (Hardback) 9781107150324","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Poverty of Strategy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOrganization in the Shadows of Technology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book rescues strategy from the boundless sway of technology and thoughtlessness.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobin Holt (Author), Mike Zundel (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107150324, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 June 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e275 pages\u003cbr\u003e28 x 19 x 2.2 cm, 0.631 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Combining Nietzschean gaiety with the political sobriety of Hannah Arendt, The Poverty of Strategy rewrites the theory of organisational strategy as an open-ended response to Alan Turing's implied question: Who am I? From the ruins of the ancient polis to artificial intelligence, Holt and Zundel deftly turn managerial reason inside out to discover irreverent, unfixed life lurking in the shadows of modernity's most hermetic machines.' Reinhold Martin, Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAt least since the ancient Greeks, strategists have sought to direct and distinguish organized activity through planned, rational decision-making, through the imaginative creation of vision, or through the assertion of will. In all cases, argue Holt and Zundel, strategy impoverishes, not because it only ever offers limited view of organized life, but because it is dedicated to concealing these limits behind grand generalities. The situation is exacerbated when machines and algorithms, not humans, organize. Holt and Zundel draw on philosophy, literature, media theory, art, mathematics, computing and military thinking in an attempt to rescue strategy by isolating what, they argue, remains its essence: strategy is a continual organizational struggle towards authenticity. This, too, is a condition of poverty, but one that sets in place an unhomely condition of questionability as opposed to one of distinctive settlement. It is, argue Holt and Zundel, the sole gift of strategy to thoughtfully refuse rather than impose, organizational imperatives.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: strategy as the basic question of organization?\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Authenticity: 1. Strategy and the organization of authenticity in the polis\u003cbr\u003e 2. Can the strategoi ever build a polis?\u003cbr\u003e 3. Strategy in the lifeworld, and the problem with home\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Three Epochs of Strategy: Techn?, Technology, Technogenesis: 4. Techn? – creating organizational forms from the earth\u003cbr\u003e 5. Technology, machinery and giving over to the general in strategic practice\u003cbr\u003e 6. Strategy as world picture\u003cbr\u003e 7. Who or what is running strategy?\u003cbr\u003e 8. The apparatus of Napoleon's forms of communication\u003cbr\u003e 9. Strategy no longer thinks in terms of human beings\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Open: 10. Impoverished by strategy\u003cbr\u003e 11. Reaching for open – strategy unbound.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Business strategy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Business strategy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Business%20strategy%20%5BKJC%5D%22\"\u003eKJC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265642909976,"sku":"9781107150324","price":79.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107150324i.jpg?v=1692025217","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-poverty-of-strategy-organization-in-the-shadows-of-technology-hardback-9781107150324","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}