Metaphorical Management Using Intuition and Creativity as a Control Mechanism for Complex Systems /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Elle, Klaus (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Θέματα: Environment.; Business.; Management science.; Complexity, Computational.; Environmental management.; Sustainable development.; Psychology.; Sustainable Development.; Business and Management, general.; Complexity.; Environmental Management.; Psychology, general.

In times of general instability change management is a great challenge. Our fossil mental patterns are not sufficient any more to be able to navigate sensibly the global scenario of complexity. Metaphorical thinking is a method which releases creative impulses into every change process and is of pra...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction; Travel to arrive as someone else; Centrifugal Metaphors 1. Sustainability: teach the unsharp how to manage: Newton Mechanics; Quantum Physics; Tissue of Reality; Evolutionary Threads; Materialistic patterns
• 2. Paradign Shift: from Fossile to Solar Aeons; Combustion energy; conscious energy transfer; linear thinking; systemic action; male domination; shift to female
• 3. The Integral Model: the navigation system for instable Systems; longing for order; from simple to high complexity; From I to We, to We go all
• 4. Perception: or the construction of our inner maneouvering room; development of perception filters; The I construction and our Cabintes of respresentation; perception obstacles; structural blindness
• 5. Change: Fascinating transition between Instability and Stability; Chaos and order as development steps; resistance as the limits of the system
• 6. Metaphorical Thinking: The creation of Metalayers; a picture tells more than a thousand words, reminding instead of teaching; Intuition as decision taking instrument; The symbol as memory enforcer
• 7.Organisation Management: Creative approaches for Collective Intelligence; Wisdom of crowds or the farewell of the Genius; The emotional DNA and the Collective production of Ideas; Companyculture and Psychosomatic Disorders
• 8. Creativity: The most sustainable renewable energy of people; creativity as necessary investment; Appendix: Being Creatively Useful, by Michael Braungart; The post-fossil fuel revolution – energy as a creative force, by Stefan Gara; Matriarchy and the Solar Age, by Carola Günther; More fertilizer for the brain, by Gerald Hüther; On what our brains need right into old age: Enthusiasm!: Creativity as a catalyst against the irrationality of economic rationality, by Claude Siegenthaler; Remain in the picture!, by Fritz Franz Vogel; Art as a stimulating force, by Georg Winter; Biographies: Michael Braungart; Klaus Elle; Marion Elle; Stefan Gara; Carola Guenther; Gerald Hüther; Claude Patrick Siegenthaler; Fritz Franz Vogel; Georg Winter; Acknowledgments.