Facilitating Organization Change or Early Cinema

Facilitating Organization Change: Lessons from Complexity Science

Author: Edwin E Olson

Looking for a highly effective alternative to traditional change models?
Finally, an alternative to traditional change models-the science of complex adaptive systems (CAS). The authors explain how, rather than focusing on the macro "strategioc" level of the organization system, complexity theory suggests that the most powerful change processes occur at the micro level where relationship, interaction and simple rules shape emerging patterns.
* Details how the emerging paradigm of a CAS affects the role of change agents
* Tells how you can build the requisite skills to function in a CAS
* Provides tips for thriving in that new paradigm "Olson and Eoyang do a superb job of using complexity science to develop numerous methods and tools that practitioners can immediately use to make their organizations more effective."
--Kevin Dooley, Professor of Management and Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University

Booknews

Olson and Eoyang look to the science of complex adaptive systems for methods that change agents (executives, managers, supervisors, internal or external consultants, trainers, etc.) can use to encourage change and make their organizations more effective. Employing the metaphor of an improvisational jazz ensemble, the text focuses on the use of self-managing teams, or "self-organizing processes," to bring about employee creativity, teamwork, and commitment. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	List of Tables, Figures, and Exhibits
	Foreword to the Series
	Introduction to the Series
	Statement of the Board
	Foreword
	Dedication
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Self-Diagnosis
1	An Emerging Paradigm of Organization Change	1
2	Change Through Connections (Not Top-Down Control)	25
3	Adapt to Uncertainty (Not Predictable Stages of Development)	49
4	Emerging Goals, Plans, and Structures (Not Clear, Detailed Plans or Goals)	69
5	Amplify Difference (Not Build Consensus)	85
6	Self-Similarity (Not Differences Between Levels)	101
7	Success As Fit with the Environment (Not Closing the Gap with an Ideal)	115
8	Self-Organization and the Change Agent: Tips for Thriving in the New Paradigm	131
9	Making Self-Organization a Reality: Evolution in Organizations	155
	References	167
	About the Authors	173
	About the Editors	175
	Index	179

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Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative

Author: Thomas Elsaesser

In the twenty years preceding the First World War, cinema rapidly developed from a fairground curiosity into a major industry and social institution, a source of information and entertainment for millions of people. Only recently have film scholars and historians begun to study these early years of cinema in their own right and not simply as first steps towards the classical narrative cinema we now associate with Hollywood.

The essays in this collection trace the fascinating history of how the cinema developed its forms of storytelling and representation and how it evolved into a complex industry with Hollywood rapidly acquiring a dominant role. These issues can be seen to arise from new readings of the so-called pioneers--Meliés, Lumière, Porter, and Griffith--while also suggesting new perspectives on major European filmmakers of the 1910s and 20s.
Editor Thomas Elsaesser complements the contributions from leading British, American, and European scholars with introductory essays of his own that provide a comprehensive overview of the field. The volume is the most authoritative survey to date of a key area of contemporary film research, invaluable to historians as well as to students of cinema.