Sources Base Discipline Champions Intended Message Realized Message Homilies Keywords Strategy Basic Process Change Central

Actor(s) Organization Leadership Environment Situation (best environmental fit) Form of Organization (implicitly favored) Stage (most likely)

THE EVOLUTION OF THE SCHOOLS.

Taming the Wilds of Strategic Management

COMPLEXITY ISSUE. INTEGRATION ISSUE.

GENERIC ISSUE.

CONTROL ISSUE.
COLLECTIVE ISSUE.

CHANGE ISSUE. CHOICE ISSUE.

THINKING ISSUE.

occasional, quantum periodic, incremental piecemeal, frequent Delineable simple and stable simple, stable, and mature dynamic but simple ncomprehensible complex, dynamic divisive, malevolent ideally passive, can become Exigent pat, competitive, delineated any to the left, so long as categorical occasional, opportunistic, revolutionary infrequent continual, incremental or piecemeal, with occasional quantum insight frequent, piecemeal infrequent rare and quantum occasional, and revolutionary

acquiescent dominant, intuitive source of cognition, passive or creative responsive to learning (of self and others) weak (micro), unspecified (macro) symbolic powerless dominant, judgmental responsive to procedures responsive to analysis periodic change agent, plus any to the left, so long as categorical

expedient

exigent

machine large machine large machine, preferably in commodity or mass production entrepreneurial any adhocracy, also professional ) any, but especially adhocracy and professional (micro), closed machine or networked adhocracy (macro) missionary, also stagnant machine machine (obedient) any to the left, so long as categorical, preferably adhocracy and missionary for transformation

Reconception strategic programming assessment chief executive planners analysts leader mind learners (anyone who can) anyone with power (micro), whole organization (macro) collectivity "environment" any to the left, in context (chief executive especially in transformation) startup, turnaround, sustained small size original conception, reconception, inertia evolving, especially unprecedented change political challenge, blockage, flux (micro), domination, cooperation (macro) reinforcement, inertia maturity, death special focus on transformation otherwise any to the left, so long asisolatable, preferably ordered into identifiable sequence

situati on

chang e

leadership

stage

Basic process

form

organizatio n

central actor

feature

cerebral, simple, and informal, judgmental, deliberate formal, decomposed, deliberate analytical, systematic, deliberate visionary, intuitive, largely deliberate mental, emergent emergent, informal, messy conflictive, aggressive, messy; emergent (micro), deliberate (macro) ideological, constrained, collective, deliberate passive, imposed, hence emergent integrative, episodic, sequenced, plus all of those to the left, in context

malleable, simple incidenta eclectic, flexible conflictive, disjointed, uncontrollable (micro); aggressive, controlling or cooperating (macro)l normative, cohesive acquiescent, simple

ordered, acquiescent structured, decomposed, acquiescent source of competitive advantages, otherwise incidental

elaborate, unpredictable any to the left, periodic changeful, plus so long as categorical

incidental

maneuverable, full of niches

any to the left, so long as categorical

contentious (in micro), acquiescent or negotiable (in macro)

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competitively demanding but economically analyzable, ultimately acquiescent when understood

either overwhelming or else constructed