Seeing Organizational Patterns - Softcover

Keidel, Robert W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1587982595 ISBN 13: 9781587982590

Publisher: Beard Books, 2005

Synopsis

Keidel uses his now-famous triangles and other geometric mind-aids to provoke new perspectives on organizational design. Those in search of new lenses and language for assessing companies will be delighted.

About this title

About the Author

Robert W. Keidel, Ph.D., is principal of Robert Keidel Associates, based in Wyncote, Pennsylvania.

From the Back Cover

Robert Keidel explains that most organizational issues are a balance of three variables: individual autonomy, hierarchical control, and spontaneous cooperation. By learning to frame issues as trade-offs among these design variables, one can see underlying patterns that previously had not been visible - and thereby make more intelligent analyses, choices, and commitments than would otherwise be possible. Seeing Organizational Patterns converts organizational design into an art form of triangular patterns. Featuring vivid examples and consulting-based cases, this book offers a wealth of theoretical insights and practical lessons. Keidel provides a set of conceptual lenses that enables you to see organizations more clearly, systematically, and imaginatively than ever before.

Edition details

• Publisher: Beard Books
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1587982595
• ISBN 13: 9781587982590
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224