Managing the Unknown :  by Creating New Futures / 
edited by Richard Boot, Jean Lawrence, and John Morris. 
 - London ;  New York :  McGraw-Hill Book Co.,  c1994. 
 - xxii, 259 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-250) and index. 
<br/><br/>Brief words from the contributors I; the business environment of the 21st century, Douglas Hague; you do not need to leave your room, Franz Kafka; up to the job, Alistair Mant; words from others; learning as creative destruction, Max Boisot; Harbour of K, Paul Klee; working on the book I; the equitable company, Coralie Palmer; words from others II; work, value, organization in 2010, Sholom Glouberman; working on the book II; new futures - new citizenship, Olya Khaleelee; words from others III; the emerging businessphere, Ronnie Lessem; Ode to Joy, Beethoven; new futures at whose cost?, Eden Charles; shaping the post-modern economy, James Robertson; words and numbers to remember; town and country, Roy Lichtenstein; revisioning organizations by developing female values, Judi Marshall; words from others V; barriers to learning the organization, Roger Harrison; an extract from Burnt Norton, T.S. Eliot; the future of identity, Philip Boxer; brief words from the contributors II. 
<br/><br/> The central theme of this text is that most managers perceive the future as a force to which they must respond reactively when, in fact, they are building and moulding the future in their actions and motives of the present. The text contains views on how to influence and control the future. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0077076265 : 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Management - Philosophy<br/>Organizational change<br/>Creative ability in business
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD38  / .M3192 1994 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>658