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For many years, Margaret Wheatley has written
eloquently about how to create resilient and adaptive organizations
where people are seen as the blessing, not the problem.
She has led the way in demonstrating how perspectives about
chaos, networks, and relationships as described in new science,
can be applied to organizations. Like all living systems,
human organizations can function as creative, self-organizing
systems, rather than the more common hierarchical control
mechanisms that lead to disengaged and demoralized workers.
In short, Margaret Wheatley is one of the
most innovative and influential organizational thinkers
of our time who has tested her ideas and perceptions in
many different settings and cultures. Finding Our Way
is a collection of her practice-oriented articles, where
she focuses on themes she has addressed throughout her career
and details the organizational practices and behaviors that
bring them to life. "The pieces presented here,"
she writes, "represent more than 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
more than 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 most
current views on these subjects."
Provocative, challenging, poetic, and often
deeply moving, Finding Our Way sums up Wheatley's
thinking on a diverse scope of topics, from leadership and
management, to social change, to our personal role in these
turbulent times; from provocative social commentary to specific
organizational practices and more.
Margaret (Meg) Wheatley writes, teaches,
and speaks about radically new practices and ideas for organizing
in chaotic times. She has worked in virtually every type
of organization and on all continents (except Antarctica),
and has been a dedicated global citizen since her youth.
She has been an organizational consultant and researcher
since 1973, a professor of management in two graduate programs,
and serves as president of The Berkana Institute, a global
charitable leadership foundation. She received her doctorate
from Harvard University and holds an M.A. in systems thinking
from New York University. She is the author of three other
books: the path breaking bestseller, Leadership and
the New Science; Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations
to Restore Hope to the Future; and A Simpler Way
(coauthored with Myron Kellner-Rogers). Her work can be
accessed at: www.margaretwheatley.com
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