Managing in Four Worlds

Managing in Four Worlds is the first business book to focus simultaneously on physical and human nature, as embodied in culture, as a basis of sustainable business development internationally. The authors combine key concepts from the new physics, developmental psychology and ecology to develop a theory and practice of business that can be applied anywhere in the world.

The book draws upon the four main major cultures from around the globe — pragmatism, rationalism, holism and humanism — and combines threads from each to create a new, commercially effective and psychologically fulfilling a proach to enterprise and work. In doing so, tke approach that Lessem and Palsule take straddles the culture and approaches of the North, South, East and West. They have created an entirely original overarching theory of business that applies simultaneously to organizational learning, business innovation, and managing across cultures. Preface.

Prologue: The Next American Nation.

Introduction.

Philosophy.

1. Free Enterprise.

2. Ethical Organization.

3. The Creative Spirit.

4. Communal Roots.

Environment.

5. Physical Environment.

6. The Ecological Environment.

7. The Psychological Environment.

8. The Cultural Environment.

Knowledge. .

9. Knowledge Creation.

10. Knowledge Creating Organization.

11. Strategist to Symbolic Analyst.

Work.

12. From Job to Vocation.

13. From Structure to Value.

Business. .

14. Psion Computers.

15. Oticon Hearing Care.

16. Ahuja Designs.

17. Constructing Cashbuild.

Conclusion: Creating a Learning Ecology.

Epilogue: Habits of the Heart.

Index.

Ronnie Lessem is Director of Transformation Programmes at the University of Buckingham and co-founder of the Four Worlds Institute. Author of fifteen books on organizational learning and transnational management he is also a consultant to corporations around the world on business and organizational development.

Sudhanshu Palsule is co-founder of the Four Worlds Institute and a Strategy Advisor to the United Nations. The originator of the concept of a knowledge-creating ecology, he works as an independent advisor and international consultant and speaks to diverse audiences in business corporations, academia and in the civic sector.

Managing in Four Worlds is the first business book to focus simultaneously on physical and human nature, as embodied in culture, as a basis of sustainable business development internationally. The authors combine key concepts from the new physics, developmental psychology and ecology to develop a theory and practice of business that can be applied anywhere in the world.

The book draws upon the four main major cultures from around the globe — pragmatism, rationalism, holism and humanism — and combines threads from each to create a new, commercially effective and psychologically fulfilling a proach to enterprise and work. In doing so, tke approach that Lessem and Palsule take straddles the culture and approaches of the North, South, East and West. They have created an entirely original overarching theory of business that applies simultaneously to organizational learning, business innovation, and managing across cultures.