... Agents Systemic thinking Change, it is claimed, has now become so discontinuous and transformational that it is leading to profound shifts in the nature of managerial work – shifts that are said to be unprecedented in modern times (Kanter 1989; Stewart, 1994; Salaman, 1995). Within this schema...

...Norman Flynn; Colin Talbot Top‐down or outside‐in change methodologies are increasingly seen to be ineffective. Systems thinking suggests that change in organizations is a much less straightforward and more subtle phenomenon than previous models allow. Since the late 1970s and as organic metaphors...

...David Wilkinson; Mike Pedler Top‐down or outside‐in change methodologies are increasingly seen to be ineffective. Systems thinking suggests that change in organizations is a much less straightforward and more subtle phenomenon than previous models allow. Since the late 1970s and as organic...