Complexity and Paradox

A fast track route to mastering and managing corporate vision. This book covers the fundamentals of complexity, from encouraging iconoclastic behavior and setting up formal complexity training to using scenarios and gathering intelligence. It includes examples and lessons from some of the world's most sophisticated businesses, including Microsoft, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including H. Igor Ansoff, Richard A D'Aveni and Peter Schwartz. It includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide. "ExpressExec" is a unique business resource of one hundred books. These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companies and ideas from the world's smartest thinkers. "ExpressExec" is organised into ten core subject areas making it easy to find the information you need: Innovation; Enterprise; Strategy; Marketing; Finance; Operations and Technology; Organizations; Leading; People; and Life and Work. "ExpressExec" is a perfect learning solution for people who need to master the latest business thinking and practice quickly.