Leadership in chaordic organizations. (©2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Beverly G. McCarter, Brian E. White.
• Other Names: McCarter, Beverly G; White, Brian E
• Contents: Definition of Complexity and Its Impact on Organizations; B . E. White; Definition of Complexity; Complex System Behaviors; Surprising Emergence; Evolves on Its Own as a Whole; Acts Robustly; Thrives on Diversity; Many Factors at Play; Stimulates Different Perspectives; Ever Changing; Informs the Observer; Performs Openly; Internal and External Relationships Are Key; Self-Organized; Sensitive to Small Effects; Exhibits Tight and Loose Couplings; Complex Systems Engineering Principles; Bring Humility; Follow Holism; Achieve Balance; Utilize Trans-Disciplines; Embrace POET (Political, Operational, Economic, and Technical) Aspects; Nurture Discussions; Pursue Opportunities; Formulate Heuristics; Foster Trust; Create an Interactive Environment; Stimulate Self-Organization; Seek Simple Elements; Enforce Layered Architecture; Human Behavior; Impact on Organizations; Overarching Fragility Concern; Recognize That Complex Systems Can Do Better than We Can The Nature of Being Human; B. G. McCarter; Mind and the Brain: An Overview; Basics of the Brain; Mind, Body, and Environment Interaction; The Mind and Emergence; Images and Knowledge: What Is Reality?; Innate Dispositions for Survival; Beyond the Non-Conscious; Emotions; Reason and Decision Making; Synopsis How to Build Trust; B. E. White and B. G. McCarter; Perspectives on Trust; World Politics, Religions, and Fear; Biases of Individuals, Groups, and Organizations; Learning in Organizations; Storytelling; Perceptions of Reality and Power; Applying Laws of Power and Getting Inside; Types of Trust; Persistent Trust; How Your Emotions May Affect Your Trust; Interpersonal Trust When Not Face to Face; Trust and Inter-Reality Systems; Trust in Mental Health; Trusting with Limited Interpersonal Contact; Implications for Leadership; Recapitulation; ; Collective Group Dynamics: A New View of High-Performance Teams; B. E. White; Introduction; Characteristics of Traditional Teams; Enneagram©; Cynefin Framework; Examples and Level of Commitment; Behaviors; Distributed Team Models; Serious Games/Virtual Worlds for Training; Difficulties in Distributed Environments; X-Teams; Exploration of Dissenting Individual Mindsets; Program/Project Management; Information Sharing; Guilds; Organizational Learning; Implications for Leadership in Chaordic Organizations; Summary; Takeaways Application of Theory; B. G. McCarter; Complex Adaptive Systems: A Reprise of Previous Chapters; Conflict; Process Enneagram©; Change; How to Facilitate Change in Organizations; Counseling Skills and Techniques; Specific Techniques; Core Values; Ground Rules; Evaluating Group Processes; Social Systems; The Individual; Changing Our Behaviors; Views of Reality; Human Systems:—What Makes Them Complex; Today’s Problems Come from Yesterday’s Solutions; The Harder You Push, the Harder the System Pushes Back; Behavior Grows Better before It Gets Worse; The Easy Way Out Usually Leads Back In; Faster Is Slower; Cause and Effect Are Not Closely Related in Time and Space; Small Changes Can Produce Big Results, but the Areas of Highest Leverage Are Often the Least Obvious; Dividing an Elephant in Half Does Not Produce Two Elephants; There Is No Blame; Summary Wicked Problems and MUVEs: Understanding Human Interactions through Multiuser Virtual Environments; B. G. McCarter; Dynamics of Living Human Systems at Work; Psychology of Virtual Worlds; Next Level of Interaction and Learning; Narrative Structures and the Underlying Psychological Dynamics Appendices; Mini-Lexicon of Selected Terms; INCOSE Working Group Sidebar on Complex Systems; Quotations from The 48 Laws of Power; Research for Virtual Worlds’ Promotion of Oxytocin; On the Information Explosion; On the Deeper Impact of Virtual Worlds; Web Collaboration, Workspace, Blog Platforms <P&gt
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxix, 275 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 658.4/092; Leadership; Organizational behavior; Organizational effectiveness; Systems engineering; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Leadership; Leadership; Organizational behavior; Organizational effectiveness; Systems engineering; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781420074185; 1420074180; 1322616566; 9781322616568
• Related ISBNs: 9781420074178; 1420074172
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-274).; Note: Print version record.
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