3 Polycentric order1
Order emerges out of chaos
The literature in Leadership Studies has already begun to address the hypothesis that order can emerge out of chaos. One could cite Margaret Wheatley's Leadership and the New Science (1992) as a popular example. Since then, many have tried to explain the idea of emergence generally (see e.g., Johnson, 2002), as well as explaining what this idea has to do with leadership (see e.g., Hazy, Goldstein, & Lichtenstein, 2007). There seems to be an appetite, in other words, for understanding how leaders facilitate this process from chaos to emergent order, especially when leaders eschew imposing order from above.2
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