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Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life Paperback - 2007
by Barry Oshry
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"Seeing Systems" is the most accessible, penetrating book available on the dynamics of systems. In it, Oshry explains why so many efforts at creating more satisfying and productive systems end in disappointment, and proposes an entirely new framework for dealing with human behavior.
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- Title Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life
- Author Barry Oshry
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
- Date 2007
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G1576754553I3N10
- ISBN 9781576754559 / 1576754553
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 7.3 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 18.54 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Management, Organizational behavior
- Dewey Decimal Code 302.35
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Seeing Systems is the most accessible, penetrating book available on the dynamics of systems. In it, Barry Oshry explains why so many efforts at creating more satisfying and productive systems end in disappointment, and proposes an entirely new framework for dealing with human behavior. Oshry shows us how teams of top executives regularly fall into turf battles with one another; why organizational improvement efforts inevitably create tensions between the ""good"" cooperative workers and the ""bad"" resistant ones; how marriages seemingly ""made in heaven"" disintegrate. Oshry demonstrates how these breakdowns in organizations result from our blindness to the human systems of which we are a part. Finally, he shows how powerful, productive, and satisfying partnerships are created when we are able to recognize and stop these destructive ""dances,"" and create new ones in which we understand and are respectful of one another and can work in productive partnership. Seeing Systems takes us to a whole new level of understanding ourselves as human beings.
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2007, Page 140