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Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World Revised
 
 

Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World Revised [Kindle Edition]

Margaret J. Wheatley
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When Margaret J. Wheatley's Leadership and the New Science 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 organisational specialist who has since co-authored A Simpler Way, 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 organisational 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 organisations worthy of human habitation." - -Howard Rothman, Amazon.com

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A completely revised and expanded edition of the international bestseller (over 230,000 copies sold)
o This new edition includes an entirely new chapter?"Change: The Capacity of Life"?and the newest developments in the new sciences, updated examples, and even more accessible writing that will appeal to a much broader audience than the first edition
o Leadership and the New Science was named the Best Management Book of the Year by Industry Week magazine, one of the top ten books of the past decade by CIO Magazine, and one of the top ten business books of all time by Xerox Business ServicesIn a completely revised and updated edition of her bestselling classing, Margaret Wheatley shows how the "New Science"?the revolutionary discoveries in quantum physics, chaos theory, and biology that are overturning centuries-old models of science?provides powerful insights for transforming how we design, lead, and manage organizations.


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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 1194 KB
  • Print Length: 197 pages
  • Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 2 edition (29 Nov 2000)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B003F3FK5E
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #125,070 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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I have just finished this amazing book! M. J Wheatley explores some very alien and difficult concepts about the nature of the universe with amazing clarity and perception.The world of new science has opened up to me, I have dipped into and reeled in chaos theory, quantam physics, fields, space and atoms. I have been helped to understand how this new knowledge can help me become a new kind of leader in a chaotic world. If you have been wondering why your management techniques don't work in an ever changing environment and you have instinctively felt a clanging with the environment you work in, then pick up this book and read! The ideas in this book will reassure you that anything is possible.
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I was given this book by a colleague and friend and have enjoyed reading it immensely. The way she links science with how we operate as organisations is really interesting and her insights are valuable to anyone wishing to move away from old structures that don't work anymore. I am attending a course with her soon, can't wait!
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I enjoyed the book immensely and heartily recommend it to anyone wishing to challenge the way they see things, frustrated at the failure of current approaches to improvement or bemused by a world that fails to make any real sense.

The `new science' of the title are the advances in physics, biology, chemistry, quantum physics and elsewhere that reflect a change in understanding about how the world works.

Underpinning the book Margaret uses the contrast between the perspectives of this new science and that of traditional or Newtonian Science.

Her argument is that Newtonian Science served a purpose, but was always founded on compromise. A Newtonian view of the world is one appropriate to understanding the world through static snapshots and approximations. It creates a world that is separated and disconnected, a world based on prediction and knowing and on clearly defined roles of cause and effect.

Modern scientific thinking increasingly recognises the interconnected nature of the world, the reality that nothing exists in isolation, that cause and effect are illusions that exist only in a dissected world, and thus we live in a world in which we must foresake certainty and understand probabilities.

Margaret asserts that in attempting to give itself credence Business Management has adopted the artefacts of science, the techniques of measurement and of analysis. But this scientific approach is deeply rooted in a Newtonian view of the world, a view that is increasingly irrelevant as the world becomes ever more deeply interconnected.

If you are looking for some quick answers, tools and techniques, or wish to remain cosy in your current thinking, this is a book to avoid. If however you need room on your bookshelf, this might convince you to discard your current library of business books and perhaps your current thinking. An inspirational read.
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