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Contents

List of Figures xvii
List of Tables xviii
Foreword xxiii
Preface xxv
Acknowledgements xxix
About the Author xxxii

1 Why it is Time Now for The Management Shift 1
Organizations Today Face Unprecedented Challenges 2
We have a problem! 4
There is a cause to the problem: outdated management
paradigm and practices 11
There is a solution to the problem: the emerging
management paradigm and practices – or The

Management Shift 11
Peter Drucker’s timeless wisdom 12
Moving from Newton’s Mechanistic to the Living Systems
Management 15
From the old to the new management paradigm 15
From the clockwork to the complex adaptive systems
management 21
Putting the new management paradigm into action 23
Examples from the real world of business: companies
implementing emerging management practices do
well fi nancially 28

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