The Third Lens: Multi-Ontology Sense-Making and Strategic Decision-Making (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780754647980)

Advancing new sense-making tools for organizational strategy, this book demonstrates how to deal with asymmetric threats and opportunities. It employs participatory methods and multiple sector strategies to shift strategic thinking into considering disorder complexity and chaos. The contributors examine whether the 'third lens' or ontology of a project (its nature, work and strategic landscape) should influence the two other 'lenses' (our epistemological and methodological choices) that create an understanding of the world we live in. The book also considers the importance of time, in particular spatio-temporal relations that serve as reflection points for sense-making and strategic decision-making, both with respect to the situation in which they take place and as conceptual vehicles for managing multiple times and realities. Written for 21st century strategists, this volume will benefit people and organizations who struggle daily with multiple co-existing ontological, epistemological and methodological discourses.

Author: Mika Aaltonen
ISBN-10: 0754647986
ISBN-13: 9780754647980
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 06/29/2007
Pages: 178
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d