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Malik

Corporate Policy and Governance - How Organizations Self-Organize

How Organizations Self-Organize

Buch, Englisch, 355 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 722 g

ISBN: 978-3-593-39545-6
Verlag: Campus Verlag


"Fredmund Malik has become the leading analyst of, and expert on Management in Europe (…). He is a commanding figure - in theory as well as in the practice of Management." Peter Drucker

Man-made organizations such as businesses and other societal institutions can function autodynamically, in the same way as modern technology steers, regulates and controls itself. With this book, Fredmund Malik offers insight into his cybernetic toolkit, along with instructions for its use. General systems policy and master controls are the key functions of future corporate policy and corporate governance.
Fredmund Malik shows how organizations have to be organized so they can subsequently organize themselves. With this book series he presents his cybernetic general management system for the age of complexity.

"With this book, Malik lives up to his reputation as a mastermind." Financial Times Deutschland
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Contents

What This Is All About 13
Concept and Logic of the Series Management: Mastering Complexity 16
Foundations 16
Connections 18
Possibilities and Limits 18

What Readers Need to Understand in Order to Understand this Book 22
Success Programming Its Own Failure 23
When Thinking Fails to Grow With Practice... 24
Problems and Systems 25
Old and New Sources 26
Cybernetics as a Source of Relevant Insight 27
Two Leaps of Evolution 27
Taking Advantage of Complexity 28
Right Management Is Cybernetic Management 30

Part I From Organization to SelfOrganization 31

1.Manifesto for Corporate REvolution 33
The REvolutionary Transformation 33
Categorical Change - Change of Categories 34
Will the Company Survive? 35
From Money to Knowledge: Will There Still Be Shareholder Meetings? 35
From Knowledge to Insight: Mundus Novus 36
Right Corporate Policy is Systems Policy 37
Management in the Age of Complexity 38
Systemic Corporate Policy 39
Systems Logic and Subject-Related Issues 40
Effective Master Controls 41
Issue Policy vs. Systems Policy 42
Corporate Policy, Systems Policy, Governance 43
Remaining Blind for System-Immanent Natural Forces 44

2.Work Plan for Cybernetic Corporate Policy 47
Roadmap to a Cybernetic Corporate Policy 47
Orientation in the General Management Context 52

3.Hypotheses 54

4.Terminology 56

Part II New Times - New Management 61

1.Constants through Change: Invariance, Self-Organization, Evolution 63
Safe Landmarks at the Top Level 63
Master Control, Cybernetics, and Governance 71
Two Kinds of Systems - Two Kinds of Management 78

2.Prototypes of System and Self-Organization 89
System Prototype: Water 89
Self-Organization Prototype: Traffic Circle 91

3.Master Control through Corporate Policy 93
What Corporate Policy Is 94
The Core of Functioning 95
Misconceived Pragmatism 96
Examples of Complexity-Compatible Corporate Policy 98
True Leadership and "Great Man Fantasies" 100
Corporate Policy and Solid System Work 101
Noncommittal Nature, Overregulation, Openness, Universal Validity 105
Ethics and Morality 108
What Should Be Regulated? 110

4.Navigating in Complexity - Models for Overview, Insight, and Perspective 111
Brain-Like Models 111
World - System - Model - Concept 113
The Model as a Thinking Tool 115
Realization and Understanding by Means of Regulation Models 116
Knowing What the Talk Is About: The Babylon Syndrome 119
Like a Brain: Operations Room - Management GPS 120
Three Purpose-Oriented Models 122
Basic Model for Corporate Policy 123
Farewell to Hierarchy: Embedding Replaces Ranking 125
Recursive Logic for Cybernetic Systems 129
Specialists, Generalists, Specialists for General Subjects 131
Three Subconcepts for Master Control 132
The Best Media for Master Control 134

Part III Instructions for SelfOrganization 137

1.What the Organization Should Do: The Business Concept 139
The Purpose of the Organization 140
The Business Mission 159
Performance of the Institution: The Cockpit 167
REvolutionizing Corporate Control through CPC towards Brain-Like Processes 177
The Cybernetic Power of Purpose and Mission 185

2.Where the Organization Has to Function: The Environment Concept 188
What Needs to be Considered? A Common Topographical Map 189
The Master Control Model for the Environment 194
Master Controls for the Environment Model 201
Categorical Change 217

3.How and With What the Organization Should Function: The Management Concept 221
The Same Management Everywhere and for All 222
Tapping the Performance Potential 223
Inducing Self-Organization 224
Management Models for Master Control 225
The General Management Model 226
The Standard Model of Effectiveness - or "Management Wheel" 228
The Integrated Management System (IMS) 232
Navigation instead of Documentation 237
An Overview of the Master Control "Management Concept" 238
Implementing Corporate Policy: Order is Law times Application 239
Management T


What This Is All About
There are many ways to systematically solve problems - but only one way to systematically avoid them: the cybernetic way. The design of a system to avoid problems must begin with the permanent realities at the core of all beings and things - their function. At the same time, it needs to integrate today's perception of the problem if it is to be understood at all. This is why I gave this book a title relevant to most top managers' world view: Corporate Policy and Governance. Only a few such managers, however, will be familiar with its content: the constants of how complex systems work - how general systems policy and its Master Controls can be used to organize organizations in such a way that whatever needs to be organized in them will organize itself.
Every organization, and indeed every human being, senses the effects of the profound change we have been undergoing ever since the age of complexity dawned. Almost everybody senses that rapid change is increasingly part of everyday life. Many people today - in particular those carrying great responsibility - find they can only fulfill their tasks at the expense of their personal lives. Hardly anybody would doubt that we need new foundations for management that are better suited to meet the new challenges than those still in use.
With this volume of my series Management: Mastering Complexity, I am presenting the key element of what general management needs in this age of complexity: the chief prerequisite for the organizations of the future, organizations that will work autodynamically. However, the concept will only unfold its elementary power, as it were, in conjunction with both the entire book series and the Malik Management System. Only when all other parts of the system work together can it achieve its maximum impact. This is why I start by explaining the concept and the logic of the series on the following pages.
Everything to be said about the subject of this book is much easier to express (and even easier to implement) in models than to put in succinct words without exceeding the scope of a book. Some of the paragraphs may therefore seem superfluous to one reader while another will find them to be precisely what he needs to understand the subject matter well. That is the price of rigorous management writing: it needs to use a language suited for everybody yet sometimes requires newly invented terms.
The questions as to what exactly needs to be done in corporate policy and governance can only be answered individually for each organization. With this book, I am making available a fully equipped toolbox, so to speak, along with the operating instructions for each of the tools, so that top managers will be able to perform the necessary craftsmanship in their organizations.
Directions regarding this volume and the entire series are given before Part I. That part then describes the key premises to be observed in order to master complexity. It also contains a roadmap for developing a corporate policy as I understand it. The roadmap explains how the remaining three parts of the book are structured. Part II explains the concept of a Master Control in complex systems: what it is, how it works and what it is needed for. The modules of Master Control will be presented in Part III. In Part IV, I will address top executives in charge of developing a corporate policy, explaining what needs to be done in order to achieve the system behavior required and what Master Controls managers need to apply to themselves. The appendix provides some concise information on the Malik Management System.
At this point I want to thank Maria Pruckner for her invaluable help in structuring and formulating this manuscript. As a student of Heinz von Foerster and an experienced management practitioner, and with her profound knowledge about the cybernetics of complex systems, she has helped me to better sort out my own thoughts and their cybernetics. The interaction of speech and


Prof. Fredmund Malik numbers among Europe's leading management thinkers. As a consultant and management instructor for the last 30 years he has advised, educated and shaped executives at all levels and in all industries. He himself has been a successful entrepreneur for decades as CEO and principal of Malik Managementzentrum St. Gallen, with roughly 200 employees in St. Gallen, Zurich,London, Vienna, Shanghai and Toronto.


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