Finding our way : leadership for an uncertain time / Margaret J. Wheatley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wheatley, Margaret J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Organizational change.

Social values.

Attitude change.

Cooperativeness.

Quality of life.

Physical Description:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Leadership for an uncertain time

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Opening

Ancient Thera, Modern Teacher

Organizing: There is a Simpler Way

The New Story is Ours to Tell

The Irresistible Future of Organizing

The Promise and Paradox of Community

Relying on Human Goodness

The Best in Art and Life

Leadership: We Make the Road by Walking

Goodbye, Command and Control

Relying on Everyone's Creativity

Bringing Life to Organizational Change

Working with Life's Dynamics in School Systems

When Change is Out of Our Control

Leadership in Turbulent Times Is Spiritual

The True Professional

Obstacles: Where the Road Gets Hard

The Real Work of Knowledge Management

The Uses and Abuses of Measurement

Name, Connect, Nourish, Illuminate

Transforming Aggression into Creativity

Seven Hundred Years to Go

Personal: Attending to Our Footsteps

Living Our Interconnectedness

Willing to be Disturbed

Reclaiming Time to Think

Listening

Raising Our Children

Ending Our Silence

Everything Has a Deep Dream

My Own Footsteps

Consumed by Either Fire or Fire

Maybe You Will Be the Ones

America's Dark Night

Beyond Hope or Fear

Dreaming World

A Parting Blessing

Notes

Where These Essays Were First Published

Bibliography

Permissions and Photo Credits

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

9786612299087

9781282299085

1282299085

9781605091464

1605091464

OCLC:

503006800