Leadership, Innovation and Organisation Management

Although, as Barry Oshry observes, there is no coherent paradigm associated with contemporary thinking about organisations, there are a great many theories. Triarchy titles in this area pay particular attention to Cultural Theory (the different ways of organising), Triarchy Theory (the different ways of getting things done), and Systems Thinking (ways of seeing how ‘things’ organise themselves and how organisations work). 

Our authors frequently conclude that a) things are not what they seem – for example, in the case of innovation, leadership or development/training, individuals consistently matter less than the larger system; b) conventional solutions do not work; and c) a broader, more contextual, regenerative approach can dissolve problems that resists be solved or resolved. See more about leadership and Triarchy theory here.

Key Leadership, Innovation and Organisation Management titles ...
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Context, Context, Context: How Our Blindness to Context Cripples Even the Smartest Organizations ~ Barry Oshry

Barry Oshry draws on a lifetime's experience to explain the nature of the problem with our organizational structures... and the ways in which we can dissolve the problem. The result is a guide to Systems Thinking for Organizations that's as short, clever, engaging, bright and helpful as any business book you will ever have picked up. Do read it. Get it into the hands of teams and team leaders, trainers, HR people, senior managers and chief executives. 

Management f-LAWS: How Organizations Really Work 
Russell L. Ackoff, Herbert J. Addison and Sally Bibb 

We've all heard of Sod's Law (aka Murphy's Law) - If anything can go wrong, it will. Most of us know Parkinson's Law – Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Management f-LAWS brings together a collection of Professor Russell Ackoff’s subversive insights into the world of business. ​​With wit and wisdom, Ackoff and his co-author Herbert Addison set out the uncomfortable truth about the way organizations really work – and get us thinking about how to change our own organizations and management practices for the better.
Systems Thinking for Curious Managers
Russell L. Ackoff (with Herbert J. Addison and Andrew Carey) 

Systems Thinking for Curious Managers features more than 40 new and previously unpublished f-LAWS (in the same vein as those published in his 2007 title, Management f-LAWS). As before, each f-LAW is accompanied by a witty, sometimes acerbic and always insightful commentary. Any one of these could serve as the ideal starting point for a strategy or planning meeting, for a team discussion, for a position or briefing paper.
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The Search for Leadership: An Organisational Perspective
William Tate 

Most organisations – public, private and third sector – know they need to offer better leadership. But, in trying to do so, they too often look in the wrong place. The Search for Leadership is a comprehensive study of the way leadership operates in organisations. The book is split into two parts – the Thinking Challenge addresses the theory of systemic leadership while the Intervention Challenge tackles the practicalities of implementing a systemic approach to leadership and leadership development in any organisation.
The Organic Systems Framework:   A New Paradigm for Understanding and Intervening in Organizational Life
Barry Oshry
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This compelling short book:
  1.  establishes that despite the frequent references to paradigms and paradigm shifts in the management and organization literature, there are no scientific paradigms in the field (paradigms as defined by Thomas Kuhn in his landmark essay).
  2. makes the case for the Organic Systems Framework being a legitimate candidate for paradigm status -- from which will follow research to extend, elaborate, test and apply the framework.
Leadership and Innovation are enormously important subjects in the Triarchy catelogue, and following the links below will take you to further pages, designed to flag up some interesting starting points should you want to know more ...

Leadership and Innovation

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All Leadership, Innovation and Organisation Management titles ...

Ackoff's F/laws: The Cake
A Little Book of f-LAWS  
Context Context Context
Differences That Make a Difference
​​Ecolonomy
Herding Cats 
Herding Professional Cats
Inside Project Red Stripe 
Leading From Example
Management f-LAWS
Memories ​
Monkeys with Typewriters
No Secrets! Innovation through openness
Organising and Disorganising 
Strategic Foresight
Strategy, Leadership and the Soul 
Systemic Leadership Toolkit 
Systems Thinking for Curious Managers
​The Decision Loom 
The Innovation Acid Test
The Need for Change
The Organic Systems Framework
The Search for Leadership
The Three Ways of Getting Things Done
The Innovation Acid Test
Transformative Innovation