Leadership and the new science :discovering order in a chaotic world /Margaret J. Wheatley.

Book

Community of Christ Library

Name/Title

Description

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. xx, 197 p. :col. ill. ;24 cm.

Book Details

Author

Wheatley, Margaret J.

Place Published

City

San Francisco

Date Published

circa 1999

Publication Subjects

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

Call No.

HD57.7 .W47 1999

ISBN

1576750558 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99016514

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-184) and index.