TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wheatley,Margaret J.
TI  - Leadership and the new science: discovering order in a chaotic world 
T2  - Books24x7. BusinessPro
SN  - 9781605091471 (electronic bk.)
AV  - HD57.7 .W47 2006eb
U1  - 500 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - San Francisco, Calif.
PB  - Berrett-Koehler
KW  - Leadership
KW  - Organization
KW  - Quantum theory
KW  - Self-organizing systems
KW  - Chaotic behavior in systems
KW  - Organisation
KW  - Th�eorie quantique
KW  - Syst�emes auto-organis�es
KW  - Chaos
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Essays
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Nanoscience
KW  - Reference
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-204) and index; Prologue : Maps to the real world --; Introduction : searching for a simpler way to lead organizations --; 1; Discovering an orderly world --; 2; Newtonian organizations in a quantum age --; 3; Space is not empty : invisible fields that shape behavior --; 4; The participative nature of the universe --; 5; Change, stability, and renewal : the paradoxes of self-organizing systems --; 6; The creative energy of the universe -- information --; 7; Chaos and the strange attractor of meaning --; 8; Change -- the capacity of life --; 9; The new scientific management --; 10; The real world --; Epilogue : Journeying to a new world --; To further explore the ideas and work of Margaret Wheatley --; The Berkana Institute --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the author
N2  - This pioneering work shows how revolutionary discoveries in quantum physics, chaos theory, and biology provide powerful insights for transforming how we organize work, people and life. "Margaret Wheatley pushes our thinking about people and organizations to a new level".--Ken Blanchard. Color photos
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