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Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World (Paperback)

by Margaret J. Wheatley (Author) "It has taken us a long while to get here-a nine-mile hike up a gradual ascent over rocky paths ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 197 pages
  • Publisher: Berrett-Koehler; 2nd New edition of Revised edition edition (1 Jan 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1576751198
  • ISBN-13: 978-1576751190
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 18.5 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 300,590 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.



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A discussion of how the "new science" provides powerful insights into the design, leadership and management of organizations. This edition has been expanded and revised, and has an epilogue, in which Mary Wheatley chronicles her experiences since the first edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, Moving and Inspirational!!!, 15 Nov 2000
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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