Book description
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.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Opening
- Organizing: There is a Simpler Way
- Leadership: We Make the Road by Walking
- Obstacles: Where the Road Gets Hard
- Personal: Attending to Our Footsteps
- My Own Footsteps
- Notes
- Where These Essays Were First Published
- Bibliography
- Permissions and Photo Credits
- Index
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: Finding Our Way
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2007
- Publisher(s): Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- ISBN: 9781605091464
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