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Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World

by Margaret J Wheatley

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Book News Annotation:

Wheatley runs a research foundation that explores new structures for organizations. She argues that the organizations most people live and work in now are based on Newtonian images of the universe, then challenges readers to think about how systems can use chaos to create order, how order is different from control, how to reconcile individual freedom and organizational standards, and other ideas. She has revised the second edition based on reactions to the first in 1992 as well as to incorporate changes in the world.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-184) and index.
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Searching for a simpler way to lead organizations — Discovering an orderly world — Newtonian organizations in a quantum age — Space is not empty: invisible fields that shape behavior — The participative nature of the universe — Change, stability, and renewal: the paradoxes of self-organizing systems — The creative energy of the universe--information — Chaos and the strange attractor of meaning — Change--the capacity of life — The new scientific management — Epilogue: Journeying to a new world.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781576750551
Author:
Wheatley, Margaret J.
Publisher:
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Location:
San Francisco :
Subject:
Leadership
Subject:
Organization
Subject:
Organizational Behavior
Subject:
Entrepreneurship
Subject:
Associations, institutions, etc.
Subject:
Chaotic Behavior in Systems
Subject:
Quantum Theory
Subject:
Self-organizing systems
Copyright:
1999
Edition Number:
2
Edition Description:
Revised and Exp
Publication Date:
October 1999
Binding:
Trade Cloth
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
197
Dimensions:
9.36x7.68x.92 in. 1.38 lbs.
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