How Many Grapes Went into the Wine - Stafford Beer on the Art and Science of Holistic Management

A collected work of Stafford Beer s papers, some previously unpublished, spanning 35 years. Presents a coherent vision to guide strategy and manage change.

List of contents

Partial table of contents:
 
Holism and the Frou-Frou Slander.
 
BEGINNINGS: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATION OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH TO TANGIBLE PROBLEMS.
 
A Technique for Standardizing Massed Batteries of Control Charts.
 
The Mechanical Simulation of Stochastic Flow.
 
The Impact of Cybernetics on the Concept of Industrial Organization.
 
CYBERNETICS: A NEW WORLD VIEW.
 
The World, the Flesh and the Metal: 1964 Stephenson Lecture.
 
Towards the Cybernetic Factory.
 
COMPLEXITY IN HUMAN AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS.
 
Cybernetics of National Development: The Zaheer Foundation Lecture, New Delhi, India.
 
Death Is Equifinal: Eighth Annual Ludwig von Bertalanffy Memorial Lecture.
 
Indexes.

Product details

• Assisted by: Roger Harnden (Editor), Harnden Roger (Editor), Allenna Leonard (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley & Sons
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.04.1994
• EAN: 9780471942962
• ISBN: 978-0-471-94296-2
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 180 mm x 237 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 764 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Betriebswirtschaft, Business & management, Wirtschaft u. Management, Betriebswirtschaft u. Operationsforschung, Management Science/Operational Research