Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Wheatley, Margaret J.

Publication

San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, [1999], ©1999.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Description

xx, 197 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• "Wheatley takes the reader on a mind-opening journey into the new science. Sharing her experiences applying these ideas in a vast array of organizations all over the world, Wheatley sheds new light on issues crucial to organizing work, people, and life, including: How can systems use chaos to create order? How is order different from control? How can we reconcile individual freedom and organizational standards? How can we create more participative, inclusive, and open organizations?
• What are the conditions that lead to organizational learning and adaptability?" "In a new Epilogue, Wheatley relates her personal chronicle of working in the world with the ideas in Leadership and the New Science. She has come to realize that her work not only presents a new view of organizational dynamics, but challenges people's most fundamental beliefs about the way the world works."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Chaotic behavior in systems
• Self-organizing systems
• Leadership
• Organization
• Quantum theory

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-184) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Searching for a Simpler Way to Lead Organizations -- 1. Discovering an Orderly World -- 2. Newtonian Organizations in a Quantum Age -- 3. Space Is Not Empty: Invisible Fields That Shape Behavior -- 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 -- Epilogue: Journeying to a New World.

ISBN

1576750558 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99016514

OCLC

• 41548224
• ocm41548224

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries