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The Temporary Society (Bennis, Slater, 1968, 1969)

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Warren G. Bennis, Phillip E. Slater

p.83 If one must make and break relationships rapidly then it becomes increasingly important that people be as interchangeable as possible, and this is most simply achieved through uniformity.

p.95 One must remember, however, that new social mechanisms do not emerge full-blown, but evolve from old ones.

p.98 There will be adaptive, rapidly changing temporary systems.... groups will be arranged upon an organic rather than mechanical model, meaning that they will evolve in response to a problem rather than to preset, programmed expectations. People will be evaluated... flexibly according to competence.

p.120 The vocabulary for adaptive organizations requires an organic metaphor, a description of a process, not structural arrangements