Leadership and the New Science Discovering Order in a Chaotic World

by Wheatley, Margaret J.

• ISBN13: 9781576753446
• ISBN10: 1576753441
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781605091471
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-03
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Summary

Bestselling author and renowned speaker Margaret Wheatley returns with an expanded version of her classic international bestseller Leadership and the New Science. It is possible to find stability and confidence within this new setting of chaos, and uncertainty. It is just a matter of appropriately recreating our lives and work. Leadership and the New Science will show how this can be done. As a new edition to this classic text, Wheatley shows how examples of non-linear networks and organisations are flourishing in the modern world. By explaining how numerous companies that use self- organising dynamics (such as E-bay and various search engines) are all prospering Wheatley reinforces the implications of her prodigal work and proves the increasing necessity of employing these principles.

Author Biography

Margeret Wheatley, EdD, writes, teaches and speaks about how to restore hope and sanity to organizations. She has been a management professor and consultant since 1973. She travels the world willingly in support of life-affirming leaders everywhere.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Maps to the Real World	ix
Introduction: Searching for a Simpler Way to Lead Organizations	3	(14)
Discovering an Orderly World	17	(10)
Newtonian Organizations in a Quantum Age	27	(22)
Space Is Not Empty: Invisible Fields That Shape Behavior	49	(12)
The Participative Nature of the Universe	61	(14)
Change, Stability, and Renewal: The Paradoxes of Self-Organizing Systems	75	(18)
The Creative Energy of the Universe---Information	93	(22)
Chaos and the Strange Attractor of Meaning	115	(22)
Change---The Capacity of Life	137	(20)
The New Scientific Management	157	(12)
The Real World	169	(20)
Epilogue: Journeying to a New World	189	(6)
To Further Explore the Ideas and Work of Margaret Wheatley	195	(1)
The Berkana Institute	196	(2)
Bibliography	198	(7)
Index	205	(10)
About the Author	215