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1. The Chaos Theory of Careers: A New Perspective on Working in the Twenty-First Century

   By Robert Pryor, Jim Bright

   The Chaos Theory of Careers outlines the application of chaos theory to the field of career development. It draws together and extends the work that the authors have been doing over the last 8 to 10 years. This text represents a new perspective on the nature of career development. It...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-80634-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Management Consulting Today and Tomorrow Casebook: Enhancing Skills to Become Better Professionals

   Edited by Larry E. Greiner, Thomas H. Olson, Flemming Poulfelt

   This casebook complements the text Management Consulting Today and Tomorrow. The book consists of 20 cases, including those from Harvard and Stanford and the University of Southern California. The cases cover a broad range of topics and practice areas that are pertinent to current...

   September 2009 | 978-0-415-80356-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Management Consulting Today and Tomorrow: Perspectives and Advice from 27 Leading World Experts

   Edited by Larry E. Greiner, Flemming Poulfelt

   This book provides a thorough examination of a variety of specialties within the broad range of management consulting. A book of such scope and depth could only be written by a large number of experts, each from one of the many specialties related to management consulting. Together, all 27...

   July 2009 | 978-0-415-80358-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Experiencing Spontaneity, Risk & Improvisation in Organizational Life: Working Live

   Edited by Patricia Shaw, Ralph Stacey

   The perspective of complex responsive processes draws on analogies from the complexity sciences, bringing in the essential characteristics of human agents, understood to emerge in social processes of communicative interaction and power relating. The result is a way of thinking about life in...

   2005 | 978-0-415-35129-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Complexity and the Experience of Managing in Public Sector Organizations

   Edited by Ralph Stacey, Douglas Griffin

   A fundamental problem of public sector governance relates to the very way of thinking it reflects; where organization is thought of as a ‘thing’, a system designed to deliver what its designers choose. This volume questions that way of thinking and takes a perspective in which organizations are...

   2005 | 978-0-415-36732-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Complexity and the Experience of Leading Organizations

   Edited by Douglas Griffin, Ralph Stacey

   The contributors to this book are leaders, consultants or managers in organizations who provide narrative accounts of their actual work and daily experience. They explore how the perspective of complex responsive processes assists them to make sense of their experience and so to develop their...

   2005 | 978-0-415-36693-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   A Complexity Perspective on Researching Organisations: Taking Experience Seriously

   Edited by Douglas Griffin, Ralph Stacey

   Part of the Complexity as the Experience of Organizing series, this book applies complex responsiveness theory to real-life leadership experiences. It features contributions from and details the experience of organizational practitioners, leaders, consultants and managers from various organizations...

   2005 | 978-0-415-35131-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Experiencing Emergence in Organizations: Local Interaction and the Emergence of Global Patterns

   Edited by Ralph Stacey

   Examining the experiences of organizational practitioners, this informative book features contributions from experienced leaders, consultants and managers in various organizations, and narrative accounts of the contributors work address key topical questions. Rather than offering...

   2005 | 978-0-415-35133-1 | Paperback (Routledge)