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Goethe Meets Accounting: Seeing the Living Company at Work


Professor Thomas Johnson
Interview with Professor Thomas Johnson
Portland State University
August 20th1999

A. Summary with Links
B. Interview

  1. A Goethean Approach to Car Manufacturing
  2. Organizations as Living Systems
  3. Three Evolutionary Principles
  4. Seeing the Parts as Embodiments of the Whole
  5. Three Cost-Driving Purposes: Structure, Newness, Volume
  6. Tracking the Neighbors to Profitability
  7. The Roots of Reinventing Cost Accounting
  8. Riding the Wave
  9. "Bodying Forth" in What We See Around Us
  10. Implications for Leading Living Systems
  11. Reflection
  12. Bio
C. Complete Interview (Acrobat PDF Download)
D. Related sites: PSU: School of Business Administration
E. Audio

 

 

 

 

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