We have been led to believe that the commons met their tragic fate because they were outdated and ineffective as a way of organizing human economic and social activity. However, this story only makes sense if we adopt a severely truncated understanding of being human, shorn of insights from psychology, sociology, or ecology. This book proposes organizational ideas and practices born out of the archetype of the commons, as well as tools reclaimed, renewed, and recycled from the vast repository of modern management models. Capitalism is failing and we need to find a better way to organize ourselves, more humanely as well as in accordance with the ecosystem.

How to Organize Yourself will help you to dramatically improve the way you work. With great tips on how to determine your goals, prioritize and manage your time, it also includes practical advice on how to: focus on the things that produce results; overcome distractions; build positive work habits; avoid information overload; and make effective use of technology. Now in its fourth edition How to Organize Yourself will enable you to take control of your workload, reduce stress and fatigue, and free up time for the things that really matter.

There are times when orgainzation and style in dealing with a rival power can be as important as grand strategy. Relations with a great nation like the Soviet Union, with its tortuous history, its cumbersome bureaucratic machinery, and its encompassing and hostile ideology, are not only a matter of formulating correct policies, but of the channels of communication one selects to convey those policies. The history of U.S.-Soviet relations is studded with missed opportunities and missed signals and is characterized consistently by the failure of each nation to understand the others' motivations and purposes. In part, these failures are a result of cultural, psychological, and political differences that make meaningful discourse difficult under the best conditions. Our own system shares power with Congress, which is not always capable of appreciating all the ramifications of foreign affairs problems. We must adjust our policies to influence a fickle press and a flighty, easily bored public opinion. It is thus far more difficult for Soviet 'Americanologists' to grasp the nuances of our politics that it is for our own experts to understand the dynamics of Soviet history. The 'riddle-wrapped' in an enigma is really Washington, not Moscow.

In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. Change is constant. The world, our bodies, and our minds are in a constant state of flux. They are a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, Emergent Strategy teaches us to map and assess the swirling structures and to read them as they happen, all the better to shape that which ultimately shapes us, personally and politically. A resolutely materialist spirituality based equally on science and science fiction: a wild feminist and afro-futurist ride! adrienne maree brown, co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, is a social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit.

Since its first publication over twenty years ago, Images of Organization has become a classic in the canon of management literature. The book is based on a very simple premise—that all theories of organization and management are based on implicit images or metaphors that stretch our imagination in a way that can create powerful insights, but at the risk of distortion. Gareth Morgan provides a rich and comprehensive resource for exploring the complexity of modern organizations internationally, translating leading-edge theory into leading-edge practice.

Join Oskar Eriksson as he erases the boundaries between the social and natural sciences by examining how the world constructs itself from its most basic components. On the journey from subatomic particles to societies, we learn to see life, consciousness, economics, and politics as parts of the same self-organizing system, which seems to open a new universe of creative possibilities. With a poetic touch, the author explains complex subjects in a way that minimizes the need for prior knowledge, but having some education in math and the natural sciences will benefit the reader.

The Routledge Handbook of Collective Responsibility comprehensively addresses questions about who is responsible and how blame or praise should be attributed when human agents act together. Such questions include: Do individuals share responsibility for the outcome or are individuals responsible only for their contribution to the act? Are individuals responsible for actions done by their group even when they don’t contribute to the outcome? Can a corporation or institution be held morally responsible apart from the responsibility of its members? The Handbook’s 35 chapters—all appearing here for the first time and written by an international team of experts—are organized into four parts: Part I: Foundations of Collective Responsibility Part II: Theoretical Issues in Collective Responsibility Part III: Domains of Collective Responsibility Part IV: Applied Issues in Collective Responsibility Each part begins with a short introduction that provides an overview of issues and debates within that area and a brief summary of its chapters. In addition, a comprehensive index allows readers to better navigate the entirety of the volume’s contents. The result is the first major work in the field that serves as an instructional aid for those in advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars, as well as a reference for scholars interested in learning more about collective responsibility.