Beyond Dispute - The Invention of Team Syntegrity (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	John Wiley & Sons
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 1994
First published:	September 1994
Authors:	S. Beer
Dimensions:	234 x 153 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	380
ISBN-13:	978-0-471-94451-5
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business strategy Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > Organizational theory & behaviour Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > General
LSN:	0-471-94451-3
Barcode:	9780471944515

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