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Leadership and the new science : learning about organization from an orderly universe / Margaret J. Wheatley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1994.Edition: 1st pbk. edDescription: xi, 166 p. : ill. (some col.), plates ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1881052443 (pbk. : alk. paper))
  • 9781881052449 (pbk. : alk. paper))
  • 188105201X (hc : alk. paper)
  • 9781881052012 (hc : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Learning about organization from an orderly universe
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Leadership and the new science.DDC classification:
  • 500 20
LOC classification:
  • HD31 .W494 1994
  • Q158.5 .W43 1994
Other classification:
  • QP 340
Online resources:
Contents:
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 -- The New Scientific Management -- Epilogue: Being Comfortable with Uncertainty.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-160) 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 -- The New Scientific Management -- Epilogue: Being Comfortable with Uncertainty.

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