The next common sense mastering corporate complexity through coherence - Michael lissack & Johan Roos

If you are to master the complex challenges offered by today's business world, your actions need to be coherent. This book offers ten guiding principles to provide you with the sense of coherence you need, as well as five practical steps for putting the principles into action.

66A wonderful book. . . As managers increasingly recognize, the command-and-control model of organization is untenable in this era of dizzying change and ghastly complexity. Yet even as we demand more flexibility and creativity of our organizations, the need has never been greater for unity, identity, and direction - coherence, as these authors call it. How shall the leaders and members of organizations cohere in such times as these? Perhaps

through 'the next common sense' a concept that calls on us to use fresh eyes and simple tools to interpret and shape a complex world.

The Next Common Sense reveals how nature organizes itself while exposing the conceit of our attempting to organize ourselves much differently. It discusses the leading of one's self as much as the leading of others.

The text is filled with anecdotes and accounts of effective managers putting to use the very skills that Lissack and Roos call on the rest of us to develop. We visit SouthWest Airlines, IKEA, Tripod and other exemplars of success. Though there is much discussion of chaos and complexity theory, there is no showy science or gratuitous mathematics.

Though a work of philosophy by a pair of professional scholars, there's not a speck of academic pretension.

Michael Lissack and Johan Roos stand apart with The Next Common Sense. You won't find recipes, roadmaps or 12 steps to recovery here. You can only find those answers for yourself by searching through your senses - through your common sense. And, as others join you in the search, together you may find yourselves practising the next common sense. 2)