Issue: Process

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

Posted by | Sep 19, 2020 | |

Few books on software project management have been as influential and timeless as The Mythical Man-Month. With a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, Fred Brooks offers insight for anyone managing complex projects. These essays draw from his experience as project manager for the IBM System/360 computer family and then for OS/360, its massive software system. Now, 20 years after the initial publication of his book, Brooks has revisited his original ideas and added new thoughts and advice, both for readers already familiar with his work and for readers discovering it for the first time.

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Prosocial: Using Evolutionary Science to Build Productive, Equitable and Collaborative Groups.

Prosocial: Using Evolutionary Science to Build Productive, Equitable and Collaborative Groups.

Posted by | Sep 18, 2020 | |

A groundbreaking, comprehensive program for designing effective and socially equitable groups of all sizes—from businesses and social justice groups to global organizations.

Whether you work in business or schools, volunteer in neighborhoods or church organizations, or are involved in social justice and activism, you understand the enormous power of groups to enact powerful and lasting change in the world. But how exactly do you design, build, and sustain effective groups?

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Making Sense of the Organization

Making Sense of the Organization

Posted by | Sep 12, 2020 | |

This volume brings together the best-known and most influential articles on sensemaking in organizations by one of its most distinguished exponents, Karl Weick.

Brings together the best most influential articles written by one of the gurus of sensemaking – Karl Weick.
Helps readers develop a thorough understanding of the sensemaking process – essential for effective management.

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Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations: Learning and Knowledge Creation

Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations: Learning and Knowledge Creation

Posted by | Sep 12, 2020 | |

The past decade has seen increasing focus on the importance of information and knowledge in economic and social processes, the so-called ‘knowledge economy’. This is reflected in the popularity amongst practicing managers and organizational theorists of notions of learning, sense-making, knowledge creation, knowledge management and intellectual capital in organizations and more recently, of emotional intelligence as an important management skill. This insightful book:

argues that the information processing view of knowledge creation held by systems thinkers is no longer tenable

develops the alternative perspective of Complex Responsive Processes of relating, drawing on the complexity sciences as a source for analogies with human action

places self-organizing interaction at the centre of the knowledge creating process in organizations.

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