Wheatley, Margaret J.,

Leadership and the new science : discovering order in a chaotic world / Margaret J. Wheatley. - Second edition. - xx, 197 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-184) and index.

Introduction: Searching for a simpler way to lead organizations -- Discovering an orderly world -- Newtonian organizations in a quantum age -- Space is not empty: invisible fields that shape behavior -- The participative nature of the universe -- Change, stability, and renewal: the paradoxes of self-organizing systems -- The creative energy of the universe--information -- Chaos and the strange attractor of meaning -- Change--the capacity of life -- The new scientific management -- Epilogue: Journeying to a new world.

1576750558 9781576750551 1576751198 9781576751190

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Leadership.
Organization
Quantum theory.
Self-organizing systems
Chaotic behavior in systems
Science.
Systems Theory
Models, Organizational

HD57.7 / .W47 1999

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