This introduction to the work walks you through some of our reasoning. We wish to emphasize that our book is not a discussion about truth.  We are not making truth claims.  Richard Rorty tells us, “Knowledge is not a matter of getting reality right, but rather a matter of acquiring habits of action for coping with reality.” (By using this quote we are not suggesting we endorse a Rortian point of view.  Rather more restrictedly, we like the quote and find it helpful.) In common parlance such coping mechanisms are called “models.”  This book calls for managers and members of organizations to make use of some very different models as part of their coping mechanisms.