{"product_id":"beyond-dispute-isbn-9780471944515","title":"Beyond Dispute","description":"The arguments in this fascinating, interdisciplinary book are wide-ranging, running the gamut from company management to the nature of consciousness. The author discusses the theory of team syntegrity and the social technique of syntegration which works in practice, offering a potent management tool for developmental planning. THE STORY OF AN ORGANIZATIONAL IDEA.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A Long Gestation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e On Protocols.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Path-Finding Experiments.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Academic Milieu.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Corporate Scene.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In the Community.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ENHANCING PROCEDURES.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Protocols Revisited.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Vexed Questions of Allocation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Developmental Planning.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Governance or Government?.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e THE FORM OF THE MODEL.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Structure of Icosahedral Space.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Dynamics of Icosahedral Space.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Self-Reference in Icosahedral Space.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e EPILOGUE.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Concept of Recursive Consciousness.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e COLLABORATORS' SURPLUS.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Reverberating Networks: Modelling Information Propagation inSyntegration by Spectral Analysis (A. Jalali).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From Prototype to Protocol: Design for Doing (J. Truss).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Pliny the Later: Elective Selection (J. Hancock).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e You Drive for Show but You Putt for Dough: A Facilitator'sPerspective (A. Pearson).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e One Man's Signal Is Another Man's Noise: Another Facilitator'sPerspective (D. Beatty).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e About Face: A Turn for Better Planning (J. Truss).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Very Model of a Modern System-General: How the Viable SystemModel Actually Works (A. Leonard).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e References.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Index. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStafford Beer\u003c\/b\u003e was a British theorist, consultant and professor at the Manchester Business School. He is best known for his work in the fields of operational research and management cybernetics.\u003c\/p\u003e  Over the last forty years, Stafford Beer has published a steady stream of books and papers in which he has applied cybernetic science to organizational problems. In all of these he has explained underlying principles and developed new theories and recorded a great variety of practical applications. He has now invented and demonstrated Team Syntegrity. Syntegrity is a powerful invention in the organization of normative, directional, and strategic planning, and other creative decision processes. The underlying model is a regular icosahedron (20 sides). This has 30 edges, each of which represents a person. An internal network of interactions is created by a set of protocols. A group organized like this is an ultimate statement of participatory democracy, since each role is indistinguishable from any other. There is no hierarchy, no top, no bottom, no sideways. Beer illustrates how continued dynamic interaction between persons causes ideas and resolutions to hum around the sphere, which reverberates into a kind of group consciousness. Mathematical analysis of the structure shows how the process is determined by the even spread of synergy. The aim of the book is to provide managers and their advisors with a new planning method that captures the native genius of the organization in a non-political and non-hierarchical way. The book includes an enquiry into Beer?s concept of recursive consciousness, based on this model, that is relevant to both neurocybernetics and the social systems sciences.","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988806451429,"sku":"NP9780471944515","price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780471944515.jpg?v=1761781664","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/beyond-dispute-isbn-9780471944515","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}