Leadership and the new science : [electronic resource] learning about organization from an orderly universe / Margaret J. Wheatley.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-160) and index.

Intrroduciton: 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.