Works
- The Temporary Society, Harper and Row, New York (first edition, x and 147 pages); revised edition, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1998, 1968
In Organizational Structures
Known for
The Temporary Society, with Warren Bennis.
Ideas
Temporary systems. With Bennis, argued that organizations would come to rely on temporary systems of diverse specialists assembled around problems and dissolved when the problems were solved. Caveat: A prediction. The book was not read; the gist gives its standard reading.
In this section, “read” means read by the Organizational Structures series: where a line says a work, or part of one, was not read, the series did not read it.