The Viability of Organizations Vol. 1

Chapter 1 Life, Viability, and the Art of Keeping One’s Balance

Chapter 2 VSM in Fifteen Minutes—How Does a Soccer Club Function?

Chapter 3 The Product—Core and Foundation of the Organization

Chapter 4 “Joining and Coordinating Forces”—The Operational Metasystem (Part 1)

Chapter 5 “Controlling and Optimizing”—The Operational Metasystem (Part 2)

Chapter 6 “Looking Outside”—The Strategic Metasystem (Part 1)

Chapter 7 “Creating Orientation and Direction”—The Strategic Metasystem (Part 2)

Chapter 8 “Decisiveness and Closure”—The Normative Metasystem (Part 1)

Chapter 10 The Recursivity of Organizations

Chapter 11 “If We Knew, What We Know …”—Organizations as Information, Transduction, and Power Systems

Chapter 12 The VSM—Does it Apply to Real-Life Organizations?

Chapter 13 “The Bigger Picture”—Some of the VSM’s Key Messages

Chapter 14 Not an Epilog, but the Point to Set the Sails …