Leadership and the new science : learning about organization from an orderly universe

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Leadership and the new science : learning about organization from an orderly universe

Title remainder

learning about organization from an orderly universe

Statement of responsibility

Margaret J. Wheatley

Creator

• Wheatley, Margaret J

Subject

• Chaos
• Chaos
• Chaostheorie
• Chaotic behavior in systems
• Chaotic behavior in systems
• Design organisationnel
• Kwantummechanica
• Natuurwetenschappen
• Organisatie
• Organisation
• Organisationsentwicklung
• Organization
• Organization
• Bedrijfscultuur
• Quantum Theory
• Quantum Theory
• Quantum theory
• Quantum theory
• Quantum theory
• Quantum theory
• Science
• Science
• Self-organizing systems
• Self-organizing systems
• Systèmes auto-organisés
• Théorie quantique
• Zelfregulering
• Quantentheorie

Language

eng

Summary

""Each of us lives and works in organizations designed from Newtonian images of the universe," Margaret Wheatley writes in this groundbreaking book. "Our assumptions come to us from seventeenth-century physics, from Newtonian mechanics. ... But the science has changed. If we are to continue to draw from the sciences to create and manage organizations, then we need to at least ground our work in the science of our times. We need to stop seeking after the universe of the seventeenth century and begin to explore what has become known to us in the twentieth century."" "Wheatley takes the reader on a mind-opening journey into the "new science"--The revolutionary discoveries in quantum physics, chaos theory, and molecular biology that are changing our understanding of the universe. And she applies these scientific concepts to offer new light on the fundamental issues of organizing work, people, and life, including: how can we find order in a chaotic world?; how is order different than control?; how can we create more participative, open, and adaptive organizations?; how can we reconcile individual autonomy and organizational control?; and what leads to organizational growth and self-renewal instead of decline and death?"--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

• HD31
• Q158.5 .W43 1992

LC item number

.W494 1992

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

HD 31 W557L 1992