false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173304243m/270897.jpg 270897 3 When Margaret J. Wheatley's <I>Leadership and the New Science</I> was initially published in 1992, it outlined an unquestionably unique but extremely challenging view of change, leadership, and the structure of groups. Many readers immediately embraced its cutting-edge perspective, but others just could not understand how the complicated scientific tenets it described could be used to reshape institutions. Now Wheatley, an organizational specialist who has since coauthored <I>A Simpler Way</I>, updates the original by including additional material (such as an epilogue addressing her personal experiences during the past decade) and reconstructing some of her more challenging concepts. The result is a much clearer work that first explores the implications of quantum physics on organizational practice, then investigates ways that biology and chemistry affect living systems, and finally focuses on chaos theory, the creation of a new order, and the manner that scientific principles affect leadership. "Our old ways of relating to each other don't support us any longer," she writes. "It is up to us to journey forth in search of new practices and new ideas that will enable us to create lives and organizations worthy of human habitation." <I>--Howard Rothman</I> 262623 1999 Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World total:106|5:46|4:35|3:19|2:4|1:2| 106 437 177 22 4 0 false false Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 18:59:01 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 18:59:38 -0700 2009 Margaret Wheatley

Wheatley's book continually challenges us to rethink our metaphors of organization, leadership and change. She encourages us to step back to see things whole, to be curious and to be vividly aware of relationships at the heart of how ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Dec 14 10:22:46 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 10:33:06 -0800 2008
At the top of the reading list for anyone...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 16 10:08:33 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 16 10:21:07 -0700 2007
And laid in plain, explicatory language the crossover from the "new science," chaos, self-organization, dissipative structures...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992 Thu Oct 15 08:57:03 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 08:59:13 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 06:21:15 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 16:30:44 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jul 16 10:38:23 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 10:39:04 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Dec 18 18:39:10 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 19:05:18 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1997 Mon Jan 14 11:58:38 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 12:03:22 -0800 2008
A few...more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Jun 05 02:28:36 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 02:28:49 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Fri Oct 17 14:36:57 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 17 14:38:58 -0700 2008 10 2 0 false false Thu Nov 15 18:11:05 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 15 18:11:58 -0800 2007 3 0 false false Tue Jun 10 10:40:47 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 10:43:20 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Jun 07 11:16:33 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 07 11:17:58 -0700 2007 5 0 true false Sun Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Apr 19 17:15:35 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 07 18:53:35 -0800 2009 1 4 0 false false Thu Mar 13 12:03:17 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 13 12:04:47 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 10 16:17:27 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 10 16:18:34 -0800 2007
Margaret Wheatley is one of the foremost thinkers about "emergent culture." She is on the board of the Berkana Institute (www.berkana.org) which works worldwide for positive change. ]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jun 28 13:51:16 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 13:54:51 -0700 2008
I look forward to reading "Finding our Way," which is supposed to be a bit less abstract.]]> 0 0 false false Sat Aug 02 19:33:08 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 19:34:48 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Mon Sep 24 10:13:14 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 09:01:02 -0700 2007 1 0 false false Mon May 04 11:43:57 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 13 12:31:01 -0800 2008 Mon May 04 11:43:57 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=270897