Managing in Four Worlds: From Competition to Co–Creation

Managing in Four Worlds is the first business book to focus simultaneously on physical and human nature, as embodied in culture, as the basis for sustainable business development internationally. The authors combine key concepts from the new physics, developmental psychology and ecology to develop a theory and practice of business that can be applied anywhere in the world.
The book draws upon the four main major cultures from around the globe– pragmatism, rationalism, holism and humanism – and combines threads from each to create a new, commercially effective and psychologically fulfilling approach to enterprise and work. In doing so, the approach that Lessem and Palsule take straddles the culture and approaches the culture and approaches of the North, South, East, and West. They have created an entirely original overarching theory of business that applies simultaneously to organizational learning, business innovation, and managing across cultures.

Spis treści:
Preface.
Prologue: The Next American Nation.
Introduction.
Philosophy.
1. Free Enterprise.
2. Ethical Organization.
3. The Creative Spirit.
4. Communal Roots.
Environment.
5. Physical Environment.
6. The Ecological Environment.
7. The Psychological Environment.
8. The Cultural Environment.
Knowledge. .
9. Knowledge Creation.
10. Knowledge Creating Organization.
11. Strategist to Symbolic Analyst.
Work.
12. From Job to Vocation.
13. From Structure to Value.
Business. .
14. Psion Computers.
15. Oticon Hearing Care.
16. Ahuja Designs.
17. Constructing Cashbuild.
Conclusion: Creating a Learning Ecology.
Epilogue: Habits of the Heart.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Ronnie Lessem is Reader in International Management and Director of the Management MBA at City University Business School, London. Author of fifteen books on organizational le arning and transnational management he is also a consultant to corporations around the world on business and organizational development.
Sudhanshu Palsule is Manager, of Organizational Development for Anglian Water. He is also a visiting member of the faculty at City University Business School, London. He has authored and edited four other books and lectures widely in the United States, Europe and India.

Okładka tylna:
Managing in Four Worlds is the first business book to focus simultaneously on physical and human nature, as embodied in culture, as the basis for sustainable business development internationally. The authors combine key concepts from the new physics, developmental psychology and ecology to develop a theory and practice of business that can be applied anywhere in the world.
The book draws upon the four main major cultures from around the globe– pragmatism, rationalism, holism and humanism – and combines threads from each to create a new, commercially effective and psychologically fulfilling approach to enterprise and work. In doing so, the approach that Lessem and Palsule take straddles the culture and approaches the culture and approaches of the North, South, East, and West. They have created an entirely original overarching theory of business that applies simultaneously to organizational learning, business innovation, and managing across cultures.