Zero Distance: Management in the Quantum Age - Softcover

Zohar, Danah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9811678510 ISBN 13: 9789811678516

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Synopsis

This open access book offers a new management meta-theory to replace Taylorism. It presents a new paradigm in management thinking and a new, practical organizational model for implementing it in our personal and working lives, in our companies, in our communities and nations, and in a sustainable global order. It will offer an understanding of why and how “thinking-as-usual” is failing both business and political leaders in these new times, and it will advocate new thinking and new management practices that are so radically new that they turn everything we have taken for granted inside out and upside down. This new management model is called “Quantum Management Theory”, because it is rooted in the new paradigm bequeathed to us by quantum physics and its younger sibling, complexity science.

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About the Author

Danah Zohar is a physicist, philosopher, and management thought leader. She is a  Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management and a Visiting Professor at the China Academy of Art.

From the Back Cover

“When Danah Zohar first published the early ideas of her Quantum Management Theory in the late 1990’s, she articulated a new paradigm, inspired by quantum physics, and began a major contribution to our search for a new management theory that can replace outdated Taylorism. Now, in ZERO DISTANCE, the most comprehensive account of her project, she outlines how the theory has been implemented through the revolutionary RenDanHeyi business model of China’s Haier Group, and subsequently several other large companies. Zohar’s suggestion that the Haier model also offers a new social and political model is thought provoking. This book is a significant addition to our continuing conversation about the best way to manage companies and other human social systems. I recommend it highly.”

- Gary Hamel, London Business School, Author of Humanocracy

This open access book offers a new management meta-theory to replace Taylorism. It presents a new paradigm in management thinking and a new, practical organizational model for implementing it in our personal and working lives, in our companies, in our communities and nations, and in a sustainable global order. It will offer an understanding of why and how “thinking-as-usual” is failing both business and political leaders in these new times, and it will advocate new thinking and new management practices that are so radically new that they turn everything we have taken for granted inside out and upside down. This new management model is called “Quantum Management Theory”, because it is rooted in the new paradigm bequeathed to us by quantum physics and its younger sibling, complexity science.

Danah Zohar is a physicist, philosopher, and management thought leader. She is a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management and a Visiting Professor at the China Academy of Art.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811678510
• ISBN 13: 9789811678516
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 301