Spotlight on Richard T. Pascale
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to record an interview with Richard T. Pascale, an international business consultant.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper uses an interview technique to reveal Richard T. Pascale's views on the relevance of complexity science to management.
Findings
The paper reveals that Pascale believes that there are some common properties to all living things that have great relevance to business. These are: prolonged equilibrium is a precursor to death; innovation occurs near the edge of chaos; all living things exhibit the capacity for self‐organisation and emergence (most recently popularised by the idea of the tipping point); and when you tamper with living things, you confront the law of unintended consequences. All four of these ideas have begun to penetrate managerial consciousness.
Originality/value
This paper provides some usual views on the relevance of complexity science to management from a well‐known international business consultant.
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Citation
Powell, S. (2006), "Spotlight on Richard T. Pascale", Management Decision, Vol. 44 No. 7, pp. 973-979. https://doi.org/10.1108/00251740610680622
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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