Executive Summary (Shaheen)
Recognize it or not, to organizational leaders, science matters. While names like Galileo, Newton, and Descartes do not routinely appear on lists of management gurus, scientists such as these have had a profound effect on management thinking, and thinking in general. Science shapes the way we view the world; providing metaphors that help us make sense of events, and thereby giving us a framework for acting to influence the future course of those events. Despite our attempts to control the machine of the modern organization, and despite the numerous, undeniable successes from the use of these machine-control techniques, it remains our common experience of the world that "stuff happens. This whole report is talking about how the managers can change their way of thinking from mechanistic thinking in a mechanical age to Complexity and Transformational way of thinking.
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