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Summary
- A bestseller--more than 300,000 copies sold, translated into seventeen languages, and featured in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Miami Herald, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Fortune
- Shows how discoveries in quantum physics, biology, and chaos theory enable us to deal successfully with change and uncertainty in our organizations and our lives
- Includes a new chapter on how the new sciences can help us understand and cope with some of the major social challenges of our times
Description
Leadership and the New Science is a modern classic--it has been adopted as required reading by businesses, nonprofits, government agencies, schools at all levels, and the U.S. military. This pioneering work describes how recent discoveries in the new sciences radically alter our understanding of the world and can teach us to live and work well together in these turbulent times.
Synopsis
We live in a time of chaos, rich in potential for new possibilities. A new world is being born. We need new ideas, new ways of seeing, and new relationships to help us now. New science--the new discoveries in biology, chaos theory, and quantum physics that are changing our understanding of how the world works--offers this guidance. It describes a world where chaos is natural, where order exists "for free." It displays the intricate webs of cooperation that connect us. It assures us that life seeks order, but uses messes to get there.
Leadership and the New Science is the bestselling, most acclaimed, and most influential guide to applying the new science to organizations and management. In it, Wheatley describes how the new science radically alters our understanding of the world, and how it can teach us to live and work well together in these chaotic times. It will teach you how to move with greater certainty and easier grace into the new forms of organizations and communities that are taking shape. You'll learn that:
- Relationships are what matters--even at the subatomic level
- Life is a vast web of interconnections where cooperation and participation are required
- Chaos and change are the only route to transformation
In this expanded edition, Wheatley provides examples of how non-linear networks and self-organizing systems are flourishing in the modern world. In the midst of turbulence, Wheatley shows, we create work and lives rich in meaning.
Endorsements
"ONE OF THE TOP TEN BUSINESS BOOKS OF ALL TIME."
--Xerox Business Services Magazine"HOLD ONTO THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD WHEN YOU READ THIS BOOK.... Using exciting breakthroughs in biology, chemistry, and especially quantum physics, Wheatley paints a brand-new picture of business management. This new relationship between business and science is nothing less than an entirely new set of lenses through which to view our organizations."
--Library Journal"MEG WHEATLEY GAVE THE WORLD A NEW WAY OF THINKING ABOUT ORGANIZATIONS with her revolutionary application of the natural sciences to business management. . . . Her ideas have found welcome homes in the military, not-for-profit organizations, public schools, health care, and churches as well as in corporations.... Through her interdisciplinary curiosity, she provides new insights into the nature of how people interact and inspires us to build better organizations and better societies across the globe."
--American Society for Training and Development"mind-expanding..."
--Fortune magazine"Years ahead of its time, this daring book will convince you that leaders must substitute their Newtonian mental model for a biological model in organizations of every size."
--Wall Street Journal
Read a free excerpt!
Summary
- A bestseller--more than 300,000 copies sold, translated into seventeen languages, and featured in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Miami Herald, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Fortune
- Shows how discoveries in quantum physics, biology, and chaos theory enable us to deal successfully with change and uncertainty in our organizations and our lives
- Includes a new chapter on how the new sciences can help us understand and cope with some of the major social challenges of our times
Description
Leadership and the New Science is a modern classic--it has been adopted as required reading by businesses, nonprofits, government agencies, schools at all levels, and the U.S. military. This pioneering work describes how recent discoveries in the new sciences radically alter our understanding of the world and can teach us to live and work well together in these turbulent times.
Synopsis
We live in a time of chaos, rich in potential for new possibilities. A new world is being born. We need new ideas, new ways of seeing, and new relationships to help us now. New science--the new discoveries in biology, chaos theory, and quantum physics that are changing our understanding of how the world works--offers this guidance. It describes a world where chaos is natural, where order exists "for free." It displays the intricate webs of cooperation that connect us. It assures us that life seeks order, but uses messes to get there.
Leadership and the New Science is the bestselling, most acclaimed, and most influential guide to applying the new science to organizations and management. In it, Wheatley describes how the new science radically alters our understanding of the world, and how it can teach us to live and work well together in these chaotic times. It will teach you how to move with greater certainty and easier grace into the new forms of organizations and communities that are taking shape. You'll learn that:
- Relationships are what matters--even at the subatomic level
- Life is a vast web of interconnections where cooperation and participation are required
- Chaos and change are the only route to transformation
In this expanded edition, Wheatley provides examples of how non-linear networks and self-organizing systems are flourishing in the modern world. In the midst of turbulence, Wheatley shows, we create work and lives rich in meaning.
Endorsements
"ONE OF THE TOP TEN BUSINESS BOOKS OF ALL TIME."
--Xerox Business Services Magazine"HOLD ONTO THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD WHEN YOU READ THIS BOOK.... Using exciting breakthroughs in biology, chemistry, and especially quantum physics, Wheatley paints a brand-new picture of business management. This new relationship between business and science is nothing less than an entirely new set of lenses through which to view our organizations."
--Library Journal"MEG WHEATLEY GAVE THE WORLD A NEW WAY OF THINKING ABOUT ORGANIZATIONS with her revolutionary application of the natural sciences to business management. . . . Her ideas have found welcome homes in the military, not-for-profit organizations, public schools, health care, and churches as well as in corporations.... Through her interdisciplinary curiosity, she provides new insights into the nature of how people interact and inspires us to build better organizations and better societies across the globe."
--American Society for Training and Development"mind-expanding..."
--Fortune magazine"Years ahead of its time, this daring book will convince you that leaders must substitute their Newtonian mental model for a biological model in organizations of every size."
--Wall Street Journal
