Gerald Harris

The Art of Quantum Planning (eBook, ePUB)

Lessons from Quantum Physics for Breakthrough Strategy, Innovation, and Leadership

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Planning today is plagued by a lack of imagination. It's often difficult, when working with a business, organization, or any group of people, to upend traditional thinking and unlock new ideas and new possibilities. If you are a strategic planner, or anyone charged with managing growth or facilitating change, it is important to add to your arsenal tools that will allow you to break unhealthy groupthink, avoid old patterns, and escape narrow safe zones. In The Art of Quantum Planning Gerald Harris takes seven concepts from the scientific study of tiny particles and applies them in the larger world, showing how they can pry open minds, spur creativity, and make the planning process far more innovative and effective. The dual nature of light-it can be both a wave and a particle-serves as a jumping-off point for a discussion of how either-or thinking can limit our sense of what options are open to us. Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, which says we cannot know both the position and the speed of an electron, reminds us that it is impossible to be aware of every variable, and so planning must be a learning process that continually incorporates new information and makes adjustments. Harris explains quantum concepts in layman's language and, using real-world examples, gives practical advice on applying the ideas in actual planning situations-including improving techniques for scenario analyses that help managers function in an uncertain business environment. This approach demands an open mind and a willingness to venture into unexplored territory-also keys for effective leadership. Using the lessons provided as triggers for thinking The Art of Quantum Planning will help readers to a more profound understanding of how to create successful strategies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781609944605
• Artikelnr.: 38332416

Autorenporträt

Gerald Harris is president of Harris Planning and Strategy, where he assists organizations with high-quality business and strategic planning.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction: Planning, Thinking and Learning
1. Learning-oriented Planning
2. From Quantum Physics to Quantum Thinking and Planning
3. Thinking Beyond Duality
4. Inescapable Uncertainty
5. Intentions, Actions and Reality
6. The Illusion of Time and Space Things and Order
7. Many Worlds Catalytic and Kaleidoscopic Thinking
8. Thinking and Planning in the Field of All Possibilities
9. Organizations Are Energy Systems
10. Personal Growth and Quantum Thinking and Planning
Conclusion: Change, Creativity and Innovation
Resources: Scenario Analysis and Applying Quantum Planning
Bibliography
About the Author
Index

Rezensionen

A unique, valuable, and practical guide to the kind of planning that leads to successful organizational breakthroughs.
Mitch Kapor, founder, Lotus Development Corporation

"One after another, Harris frames the challenges facing the strategic planner and then provides helpful and practical ways of addressing them with the tools of quantum thinking. This is perhaps only the beginning of a dialog with these ideas."
from the foreword by Peter Schwartz, futurist and author of The Art of the Long View

When most people think of strategic planning, they think of boring one- or two-day meetings. Thankfully, we now have a bold, innovative way to direct organizations into continuous, out-of-the-box learning and planning. Harris eloquently breaks down the concepts from quantum physics and applies them to organizations in a way that is useful and understandable.
Christopher Morris, Manager of Communications and Web Resources, CUNA Councils