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Harvard University Press The World Republic of Letters (Convergences: Inventories of the Present S.)
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Texere Publishing,US Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business
Few business books capture so well the drama of today's business landscape. The Internet, increasing global competition, the after effects of the dot com boom: today's businesses face an unprecedented range of threats. The theory posed by <I>Surfing the Edge of Chaos</I> is that such threats are only natural--in fact, today's business laws are parallel to the laws of nature: evolution creates survivors, genetic mixing breeds stronger descendants, moving too far from core values results in chaos. <p> Much like Richard Dawkins' <I>The Selfish Gene</I>, this book blends scientific information with social comment and history. The biochemical concepts used to illustrate how companies live, grow and die are explained, meaning that readers without a scientific background aren't disadvantaged. Using examples largely from the high-tech community, Pascale shows how Silicon Valley giants such as IBM and HP--once heralded as the finest companies in the market--saw coming changes in the landscape, yet failed to adapt. IBM missed the opportunity to capitalise on open architectures and lost the PC operating system battle to Microsoft, while HP became mired in bureaucracy.<p> There aren't many books that would liken Monsanto's move from plastics to genetic engineering to galactic dust coalescing into a star: this one does. The adaptive leadership of the company's chief executive, Robert Shapiro, is credited with Monsanto's heady success in the 1990s. His failure to understand the nature of complexity is crucial in the company's subsequent fall. <blockquote>If life is indeterminate and unknowable, if we can all be killed by avalanches, why bother? There are no wholly reassuring answers, but some guidelines can increase the chances of survival. In business, the game can be chess or roulette--it helps not to confuse the strategies appropriate for each. The objective is to synthesis all the pieces together. Key disciplines can sustain the vitality of a living system (specifically corporations) over time.</blockquote><p& gt; It's an intriguing premise, and even if you don't agree with Pascale, his arguments bring life to some of the most dramatic corporate stories of the last 20 years. --<I>Sally Whittle</I>
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare's Violated Bodies: Stage and Screen Performance
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HarperCollins And God Created the Au Pair: Picture the Perfect Family, Now Forget It and Read This!
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Pan The Dolphin's Boy: A Story of Courage and Friendship
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