Cover IllustrationFritz B. Simon
 CONECTA

The Organisation of Self-Organisation

Foundations of Systemic Management

Translated from the German by Sally Hofmeister
176 p., 15 Illus., Paperback, 2004
€ 24.95 / USD 34.95
ISBN 978-3-89670-447-4
Original Title: Radikale Marktwirtschaft

Economics, so they say, is eighty per cent psychology. In this book, the author shows that psychology is one hundred per cent economics. Every human interaction can be understood as a form of market economy. The theoretical explanation for this model follows from recent developments in systems and evolution theory and the epistemological concepts of so-called “radical constructivism”. Human behaviour can be seen as a commodity that is differentiated, named, evaluated and exchanged, and that means that anyone who acts, transacts. This book elucidates what this means in theory and practice for a manager and his everyday life, the organisation of companies, management, achievement, planning and business culture; the author illustrates this in a number of case examples and complements it with recipes for a manager’s everyday life.

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A stimulating walk for the inquisitive and the pragmatist over the fairground of our personal behavioural options ... clearly sets this book apart from other management guides on offer.
Heinz Metzen (Manager magazin, 5/1993)

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Fritz B. Simon

Fritz B. Simon M. D., Professor for Management and Organisation, Economics Faculty of the University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany. Systemic organisation consultant, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and systemic family therapist. Managing partner of Management Zentrum Witten GmbH and Simon, Weber and Friends, Systemic Organisation Consultation GmbH. From 1994 to 2001, vice president of the European Family Therapy Association (EFTA), vice president of the German-Chinese Academy for Psychotherapy. Main focus of work: organisation, communication and conflict research and consultation, coaching. Teaching and consultation in various European countries, the United States and China. Author and/or editor of approx. 200 scientific articles and 17 books, which have been translated into 10 languages.

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