Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership, Fourth Edition

PART SIX

Improving Leadership Practice

Up to now, we have emphasized the unique features of four distinctive ways to think about organizations. But making sense of a complex situation is not a single-frame activity. A messy, turbulent world rarely presents bounded, well-defined problems. In this part of the book, we focus on combining lenses to achieve multi-frame approaches to managing and leading.

In Chapter Fifteen, we contrast a stereotype of crisp, orderly rationality with a more frantic, reactive reality of managerial life. We show how ...