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"Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world s most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his thinking with a flair that is unmatched. His writing is as much art as it is science. He is the most viable system I know." Dr Russell L Ackoff, The Institute for Interactive Management, Pennsylvania, USA. "If anyone can make it [Operations Research] understandably readable and positively interesting it is Stafford Beer everyone in management should be grateful to him for using clear and at times elegant English and even elegant diagrams." The Economist
Based on the Massey Lectures, this book examines the reasons why the institutions of our society may well be failing, and opens a discussion as to what could be done. Drawing on the science of effective organization, which is his definition of cybernetics, Stafford Beer explains key cybernetic principles in words and pictures that all can understand. He concludes that our society commits more and more resources to plastering over the cracks in the system which simply reappear while freedom itself is increasingly eroded. The institutions must be redesigned, and returned to the people, to whom the scientific tools for doing this ought to belong.
Based on the Massey Lectures, this book examines the reasons why the institutions of our society may well be failing, and opens a discussion as to what could be done. Drawing on the science of effective organization, which is his definition of cybernetics, Stafford Beer explains key cybernetic principles in words and pictures that all can understand. He concludes that our society commits more and more resources to plastering over the cracks in the system which simply reappear while freedom itself is increasingly eroded. The institutions must be redesigned, and returned to the people, to whom the scientific tools for doing this ought to belong.
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- ÉditeurJohn Wiley & Sons Ltd
- Date d'édition1974
- ISBN 10 0471062200
- ISBN 13 9780471062202
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- Nombre de pages108
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Designing Freedom: 13th series (Massey lectures)
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Good. VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents. N° de réf. du vendeur 9999-9993315006
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Designing Freedom (Wiley Series in Management)
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Description du livre Etat : Good. Item in good condition and has highlighting/writing on text. Used texts may not contain supplemental items such as CDs, info-trac etc. N° de réf. du vendeur 00052053731
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Designing Freedom (Wiley Series in Management)
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Description du livre hardcover. Etat : Good. Good. book. N° de réf. du vendeur D8S0-3-M-0471062200-4
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Designing Freedom [ with Sketches By the Author ]
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First Edition. A good+ copy of the presumed first hard cover edition (no explicit edition or printing statement) in a like (not clipped) dust-jacket. Sparse underlining on three of the 100 pages (p. 27: three lines, with marginal strike; p. 55: portion of one line; p. 61: two lines), else unmaked: no highlighting. Previous owner's name stamped, in small print, to front and rear endpapers. Age-toning to page edges of volume. Binding is solid: no splitting of the endpapers, no wobble to the boards. Severe discoloration to dust-jacket: probable result of ownership by a smoker. Very moderate wear at the extremities of the jacket. All in all a decent copy of the increasingly hard-to-find first hard cover edition. [ Please note: This is NOT an ex-library copy. ]. N° de réf. du vendeur 015181
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