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Systems Thinking for Effective Managers: The Road Less Travelled
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.
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.
220 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 2017
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July 18, 2020
It is extremely rare that I pick up a Management Book to read. However, I picked this up to read as the author happens to be a fellow Alumnus and a good friend. However, I found this to be absorbing reading with the author building a structure around his approach to resolving various business issues during the course of his career in consulting and general industry. As the name suggests, the author provides a framework to systems approach to problems and could easily be extended to real life issues too, in my opinion.
December 14, 2021
A truly eye-opener content.
Having worked in an ultra high pressure workspace, I recommend this work to every new Manager (tip: this will get you a CEO's perspective from Day 1)
Prashun structures this book in the form of a journey- his own journey of discovering systems thinking and the way he discovered the different aspects of the concept and how he effectively used it in his career. Awe-struck by some of the concepts introduces in this book - Feedback loops, Emergence, etc.,
Deserves much more praise than what the book is currently receiving. will revisit it every few years.
Thanks for writing this book, Sir!
#Highly recommended
Having worked in an ultra high pressure workspace, I recommend this work to every new Manager (tip: this will get you a CEO's perspective from Day 1)
Prashun structures this book in the form of a journey- his own journey of discovering systems thinking and the way he discovered the different aspects of the concept and how he effectively used it in his career. Awe-struck by some of the concepts introduces in this book - Feedback loops, Emergence, etc.,
Deserves much more praise than what the book is currently receiving. will revisit it every few years.
Thanks for writing this book, Sir!
#Highly recommended
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