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Wheatley, Margaret J.

Leadership and the new science : learning about organization from an orderly universe / Learning about organization from an orderly universe Margaret J. Wheatley. - 1st pbk. ed. - San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1994. - xi, 166 p. : ill. (some col.), plates ; 24 cm.

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.

ISBN: 1881052443 (pbk. : alk. paper)) 9781881052449 (pbk. : alk. paper)) 188105201X (hc : alk. paper) 9781881052012 (hc : alk. paper)

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Organization.
Quantum theory.
Self-organizing systems.
Chaotic behavior in systems.
Organisationslehre.
organisation (organisme)--science.
Armies--Organization.
Chaotic behavior in systems.
Quantum theory.
Self-organizing systems.

LC Class. No.: HD31 / .W494 1994 Q158.5 / .W43 1994

Dewey Class. No.: 500