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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784616603321

Autore

Wheatley Margaret J

Titolo

Finding our way [[electronic resource] ] : leadership for an uncertain time / / Margaret J. Wheatley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, CA, : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2005

ISBN

1-282-29908-5

9786612299087

1-60509-146-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 296 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

658.4/092

Soggetti

Leadership

Organizational change

Social values

Attitude change

Cooperativeness

Quality of life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-278) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

For years, Margaret Wheatley has written eloquently about humanizing our organizations and helping people to work together more effectively and compassionately. She has shown how breakthroughs in chaos theory and quantum physics can enable organizations to function more like responsive, self-organizing living systems, rather than cold mechanisms of control. And she has gradually expanded these ideas into the wider arena of human society. In short, Margaret Wheatley is one of the most innovative and influential organizational thinkers of our time, and Finding Our Way brings together her shorter writings for the first time, touching on all the topics she has addressed throughout her career, showing how she has applied the ideas in her books s in many different situations. “The pieces presented here”, she writes,  “represent ten years of work, of how I took the ideas in my books and applied them in practice in many different situations. However, this is



not a collection of articles. I updated, revised, or substantially added to the original content of each one. In this way, everything written here represents my current views on the subjects I write about.” Provocative, challenging, at times poetic, and often deeply moving, Finding Our Way sums up Wheatley's thinking on  a diverse scope of topics from leadership and management to education and raising children in turbulent times; from societal commentary to specific organizational techniques and more.