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Leadership and the new science : discovering order in a chaotic world / Margaret J. Wheatley.

By: Wheatley, Margaret J.
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler Pub, c2006Edition: 3rd ed., revised and expanded edition.Description: xiv, 218 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.ISBN: 1576753441 (pbk.); 9781576753446 (pbk.).Subject(s): Leadership | Organization | Quantum theory | Self-organizing systems | Chaotic behavior in systemsDDC classification: 658.4092
Contents:
Introduction: seeing for a simpler way to lead organizations -- 1. Discovering and orderly world -- 2. Newtonian organizations in a quantam age -- 3. Space is not empty: invisible fields that shape behaviour -- 4. The participative nature of the universe -- 5. Change, stability, and renewal: the paradoxes of self-organizing systems -- 6. The creative energy of the universe-information -- 7. Chaos and the strange attractor of meaning -- 8. Change-the capacity of life -- 9. The new scientific management -- 10. The real world -- Epilogue: Journeying to a new world.
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Previous ed.: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-204) and index.

Introduction: seeing for a simpler way to lead organizations -- 1. Discovering and orderly world -- 2. Newtonian organizations in a quantam age -- 3. Space is not empty: invisible fields that shape behaviour -- 4. The participative nature of the universe -- 5. Change, stability, and renewal: the paradoxes of self-organizing systems -- 6. The creative energy of the universe-information -- 7. Chaos and the strange attractor of meaning -- 8. Change-the capacity of life -- 9. The new scientific management -- 10. The real world -- Epilogue: Journeying to a new world.

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