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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.

Table of Contents
THE STORY OF AN ORGANIZATIONAL IDEA.

A Long Gestation.

On Protocols.

Path-Finding Experiments.

The Academic Milieu.

The Corporate Scene.

In the Community.

ENHANCING PROCEDURES.

Protocols Revisited.

Vexed Questions of Allocation.

Developmental Planning.

Governance or Government?.

THE FORM OF THE MODEL.

The Structure of Icosahedral Space.

The Dynamics of Icosahedral Space.

Self-Reference in Icosahedral Space.

EPILOGUE.

The Concept of Recursive Consciousness.

COLLABORATORS' SURPLUS.

Reverberating Networks: Modelling Information Propagation inSyntegration by Spectral Analysis (A. Jalali).

From Prototype to Protocol: Design for Doing (J. Truss).

Pliny the Later: Elective Selection (J. Hancock).

You Drive for Show but You Putt for Dough: A Facilitator'sPerspective (A. Pearson).

One Man's Signal Is Another Man's Noise: Another Facilitator'sPerspective (D. Beatty).

About Face: A Turn for Better Planning (J. Truss).

The Very Model of a Modern System-General: How the Viable SystemModel Actually Works (A. Leonard).

References.

Index.

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Publication Date: 23/06/1994
      ISBN13: 9780471944515, 978-0471944515
      ISBN10: 0471944513

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      THE STORY OF AN ORGANIZATIONAL IDEA.

      A Long Gestation.

      On Protocols.

      Path-Finding Experiments.

      The Academic Milieu.

      The Corporate Scene.

      In the Community.

      ENHANCING PROCEDURES.

      Protocols Revisited.

      Vexed Questions of Allocation.

      Developmental Planning.

      Governance or Government?.

      THE FORM OF THE MODEL.

      The Structure of Icosahedral Space.

      The Dynamics of Icosahedral Space.

      Self-Reference in Icosahedral Space.

      EPILOGUE.

      The Concept of Recursive Consciousness.

      COLLABORATORS' SURPLUS.

      Reverberating Networks: Modelling Information Propagation inSyntegration by Spectral Analysis (A. Jalali).

      From Prototype to Protocol: Design for Doing (J. Truss).

      Pliny the Later: Elective Selection (J. Hancock).

      You Drive for Show but You Putt for Dough: A Facilitator'sPerspective (A. Pearson).

      One Man's Signal Is Another Man's Noise: Another Facilitator'sPerspective (D. Beatty).

      About Face: A Turn for Better Planning (J. Truss).

      The Very Model of a Modern System-General: How the Viable SystemModel Actually Works (A. Leonard).

      References.

      Index.

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