Effective School Management

particularly useful to organizations having to adapt rapidly to change.
Although one of the conceptual roots of the model, control engineering, is
alien to schools, the other root is more acceptable: it comes from a study of
how living organisms work and survive, and especially of the properties of
the central nervous system of the human organism. By comparing organi-
zations to organisms that adapt and survive in a changing environment, this
approach brings out a number of factors important to schools today.

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