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