CYBERNETICS & HUMAN KNOWING

A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics & Cyber-Semiotics


Vol. 1 no. 2/3 1992

Per Thygesen Poulsen:
Turbulence and Responsibility

Abstract

Managing a business organization is practicing second order cybernetics. Until now management has been a would-be exact science teaching managers to become analysts rather than decisionmakers. But the understanding of turbulence and unpredictability as inherent conditions change the mechanistic paradigm of management, calculation and professionalism into an accept of leadership, choice and responsibility.


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