Organizational defences that exist in most organizations can inhibit organizational performance. This book shows how to diagnose the organization to expose the weaknesses. Each chapter contains advice about how to reduce organizational defences to bring about improved involvement and performance.

Organizational defences that exist in most organizations can inhibit organizational performance. This book shows how to diagnose the organization to expose the weaknesses. Each chapter contains advice about how to reduce organizational defences to bring about improved involvement and performance.

How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the s...(展开全部)

纳尔逊· 古德曼（1906---1998），美国哲学家，著名的分析哲学家、逻辑学家、科学哲学家和美学家，现代唯名论、新实用主义的主要代表之一。古德曼于1941年获得哈佛大学哲学博士学位，先后任美国宾夕法尼亚大学、布兰蒂斯大学和哈佛大学教授；1950---1952年任美国符号逻辑协会副主席，1967年任美国哲学东部分会主席；是美国文理学院院士、大英人文与社会科学全国学院不列颠学院通讯院士。古德曼以其宏博的学识、睿智的思维和天才的洞见成为了20世纪哲学诸多领域的大师级人物。