A living organization. The company as a living organism
A living organization. The company as a living organism
Book Description
"A handbook for every manager who wants to understand what forces will shape the economy of the near future. In their book, Meyer and Davis give you the tools to Grow." - Mike Yates, Head of Johnson & Johnson's consumer products division. The world is on the verge of a new revolution, compared to which the computer revolution will seem like child's play. In our age of change, companies should abandon the development of rigid plans for the future, abandon fruitless attempts to influence the business environment and instead adopt a revolutionary paradigm of "adaptive management" based on the principles of self-organization of biological systems. Instead of a rigid administrative management system, a successful organization should have the skills of "self-organization", "recombine" like the cellular systems of living organisms, borrowing the best solutions from various sources, "evolve", adapting to changes in the environment. Based on numerous cases and practices of the most successful organizations, from the financial corporation CapitalOne, BritishPetroleum and to the US Marine Corps, the authors tell how to use the latest advances in biology, nanotechnology and principles of self-organization of wildlife in business to make any company sustainable in conditions of constant change.
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