This is a well-illustrated, non-technical guide for managers which explains how to build or enhance their organizations' capability to anticipate and manage the future. It draws on scientific understanding of the processes we, as human beings, use to help us cope with the future and demonstrates how these techniques can be exploited to run businesses more effectively. Relating insights from biological and systems sciences and familiar situations in everyday life to the challenges faced by business in developing more effective management processes. Demonstrating how to apply this knowledge practical. The body of the book is written in a punchy and accessible style with plentiful illustrations, cases and examples with optional 2018 panels' for those with a need for more technical detail/explanation/different learning styles. Easy links for readers interested in exploring deeper performance management topics example, Beyond Budgeting. Table of Contents: Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Section 1: 2018 Why? Chapter 1 - Part 1, Why Change? Everyone Knows the Trouble I've Seen Chapter 1 - Part 2, Forecasting Disease, the Symptoms and the Remedy Section 2: Principles Chapter 2 - Mastering Purpose - the Cassandra Paradox. Chapter 3 - Mastering Time - Delay and Decision. Chapter 4 - Mastering Models: Mapping the Future. Chapter 5 - Mastering Measurement - Learning to Love Error Chapter 6 - Mastering Risks: How the Paranoid Survive Section 3: Praxis Chapter 7 - Mastering Process: The Mother of Good Fortune Theme No. 1 - Recipe for success: tips and traps Theme No. 2 - Coordination in a complex system: How different can we be? Theme No. 3 - Whose job is it anyway? Roles and responsibilities Section 4: Transformation Chapter 8 - Implementation: Beginnings and Endings Chapter 9 - Beyond Forecasting: The Biggest Barrier Chapter 10 - Beyond Budgeting: A New Management Model? Chapter 11 - Conclusion: Reconnection Glossary Appendix 1 - Design Principles: A Summary Appendix 2 - Important Concepts in Systems and Cybernetics References Index

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