TY - BOOK ID - 78392647 TI - Systems thinking for effective managers : the road less travelled PY - 2017 SN - 9789386446756 9386446758 9789386446749 938644674X 9789386446732 9353280311 9789353280314 PB - New Delhi SAGE Publications DB - UniCat KW - E-books KW - Management KW - System analysis KW - System theory KW - Organizational effectiveness KW - Organization KW - Systems, Theory of KW - Systems science KW - Science KW - Network analysis KW - Network science KW - Network theory KW - Systems analysis KW - Mathematical optimization KW - Administration KW - Industrial relations KW - Philosophy KW - Management. KW - System analysis. KW - System theory. KW - Organizational effectiveness. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78392647 AB - Traditional education has been extremely biased towards science, owing primarily to the success that science has demonstrated in the last three centuries. While the methods of science are greatly, if not fully, responsible for its success, these are grossly inadequate in the context of societal systems and the complexities that managers and leaders deal with. The real world is markedly different and heavily interconnected. Systems thinking is the perfect antidote to the stagnation that characterizes managerial theories and practices. Conventional management, constrained by a sanitized world view, is no longer able to deliver as it did in the past. Expanding horizons and thinking holistically unveils the big picture and builds a body of knowledge more suited to the changing times we live in. ER -