- Paperback: 172 pages
- Publisher: Berrett-Koehler; New edition edition (April 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1881052443
- ISBN-13: 978-1881052449
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 18.5 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 639,481 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Our understanding of the universe is being radically altered by the "new science" - the revolutionary discoveries in quantum physics, chaos theory, and molecular biology that are overturning the models of science that have dominated for centuries. Now Margaret Wheatley shows how the new science provides equally powerful insights for transforming how we organize work, people, and life. This book offers: an exploration of how the new science can change the ways we understand, design, lead, and manage organizations; an easy-to-read, single-source summary of a wide range of new science discoveries; and light on issues that trouble people in organizsations most: order and change, autonomy and control, structure and flexibility, planning and innovation.
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A Book of the Organizational Context of the Next Milenium,
By A Customer
This review is from: Leadership and the New Science: Learning About Organization from an Orderly Universe (Hardcover)
The new change in millennium which we will soon be experiencing, will be with out a doubt an era of organizational transition that will break with established ways of thinking and behavior with in the organization. This change will mark the end of the "mecanisista" way of thinking and the arrival of the new organization.
Margareth Wheatley in her book "Leadership and the new science" offers new ways to perceive the new organizational dimensions that we might have imagined but have not reflected enough upon them. Ms. Wheatley is with out a doubt a pioneer of the XXI century's organization who help us to experience these little known dimensions in the context of the new organization.
This fast pace book has short but profound descriptions of the transcendental stages that science has gone through in the XXth Century. It describes how the principles of Quantum Theory, Cybernetics, and Chaos Theory among others have secure a place in the new organizational context. It does not try to create a new truth but provide new adequate models to interpret our new reality.
There are no magic formulas in this book to focus on the customer, or reduce costs or even know how for continuos improvements. This book however will provide the spark for deep reflection on the basics for the new organization. It is about the new rules to play in a rapid changing environment through "administracion inteligente", that develops in a nonlinear world. It is about the communication that must take place internally between all relevant parties to adapt to the ever changing requirements of the business climate. A business climate that is ever more competitive and that --- changes the rules of the natural selection at a faster pace.
Wheatly talks about living organizations capable of self-direct when they are free from the excessive controls that tight them. This new vision of the future organization underlines the importance of the focused participation of every part of the organization. Only then will it be able to execu
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This book will challenge your Newtonian view of reality.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Leadership and the New Science: Learning About Organization from an Orderly Universe (Paperback)
Provocative and insightful, however the author perhaps puts too much confidence in evolution all the while pestering our Newtonian linear and clockwork view of the universe. Her grasp and application of quantum physics related to organizational systemic management is worth pondering. One would wish she had made more connections to leadership and organizational culture and behavior. But then, I will re-read this more than once to get the "picture" she is trying to paint. I am attempting to apply her work to pastoral and church ministry and have God in the equation. I think she has discovered God's quantum designs centered in relationships and order in the universe made by Himself, the clockmaker.
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Ernst Mach's Antithesis,
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This review is from: Leadership and the New Science: Learning About Organization from an Orderly Universe (Paperback)
In her book "Management and the New Science", Margaret Wheatley attempts to take scientific principles and illustrate how they can benefit managers. Not an unworthy goal, but this book is about as scientific as "Saved by an Angel". Throughout the book Wheatley continually attributes human values and metaphysical meanings to physical phenomena, resulting in a book that reads like a weird hybrid of Scientific American and L. Ron Hubbard's "Dianetics". The fundamental failure of the book lies in the fact that Wheatley never uses any sort of scientific metodology to assess her hypothesis. She is able to offer cogent arguments at various points of the book, but arguments that sound good do not constitute viable scientific proof of her assertions. While this book may be unfit for any scientific discussion, it does deserve a bonus point for being largely free of typographical errors. Rating: 2.
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