Leadership and the new science : learning about organization from an orderly universe / Margaret J. Wheatley.
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TextPublication 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))
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- Learning about organization from an orderly universe
- 500 20
- HD31 .W494 1994
- Q158.5 .W43 1994
- QP 340
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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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