InCorporate Policy and Governance, Fredmund Malik offers insight into his cybernetic toolkit along with instructions for its use. He argues that businesses and other societal institutions can function “autodynamically”—in much the same fashion that modern technology steers, controls, and regulates itself—by adopting general systems policies. Explaining the way that organizations must be structured so they can organize themselves, Malik presents his cybernetic general management system for the age of complexity in this compelling book that every corporate executive should rea
Fredmund Malikis a management scientist, entrepreneur, and author of several award-winning best sellers. Malik Management, with offices in St. Gallen, Zürich, Vienna, Berlin, London, Shanghai, Beijing, and Toronto, is the world’s largest think-and-action-tank for effective general management.
What This Is All About
Concept and Logic of the SeriesManagement: Mastering Complexity
What Readers Need to Understand in Order to Understand this Book
Part I: From Organization to Self-Organization
1. Manifesto for Corporate REvolution
2. Work Plan for Cybernetic Corporate Policy
3. Hypotheses
4. Terminology
Part II: New Times—New Management
1. Constants through Change: Invariance, Self-Organization, Evolution
2. Prototypes of System and Self-Organization
3. Mast Control through Corporate Policy
4. Navigating in Complexity—Models for Overview, Insight, and Perspective
Part III: Instructions for Self-Organization
1. What the Organization Should Do: The Business Concept
2. Where the Organization Has to Function: The Environment Concept
3. How and With What the Organization Should Function: The Management Concept
Part IV: Sovereignty and Leadership through Master Control
1. Order, Time, Peacel£#