Leadership and the new science /

Wheatley, Margaret J.

Leadership and the new science / Margaret J. Wheatley. - Rev. and expanded ed. - San Francisco, Calif. : London : Berrett-Koehler ; McGraw-Hill, 2000. - 215 p. ; 23 cm.

Previous ed.: 1999.

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 -- Further Development of These Ideas and Practices. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

"Leadership and the New Science is the guide to applying the new science to organizations of all types, and to our personal lives. Wheatley describes how the new science radically alters our understanding of the world, and how it can teach us to live and work well together in these chaotic times. It will teach you how to move with greater certainty and easier grace into the new forms of organizations and communities that are taking shape."--BOOK JACKET.

1576751198 9781576751190

HD57.7.W456 2004

GBA0-V6066


Science.
Organization.
Quantum theory.
Self-organizing systems.
Chaotic behavior in systems.
Armies--Organization.
Chaotic behavior in systems.
Quantum theory.
Science.
Self-organizing systems.

HD57.7 / .W47 2000

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