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Birth of the chaordic age / Dee Hock. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hock, Dee, 1929-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hock, Dee, 1929-.
- Hock, Dee.
- VISA International--History.
- VISA International.
- Businessmen--United States--Biography.
- Businessmen.
- Bank credit cards--History.
- Bank credit cards.
- Businessmen--History--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 345 p. )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "The worldwide success of VISA International, Dee Hock asserts, is due to its chaordic structure: it is owned by 22,000 member banks, which both compete with each other for 750 million customers and must cooperate by honoring one another's $1.25 trillion in transactions annually across borders and currencies. Birth of the Chaordic Age is the story of how that structure came into being."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- In search of a more liveable world
- On the nature and creation of chaordic organizations
- Old monkey mind
- A lamb and the lion of life
- The bloodied sheep
- Retirement on the job
- Ordinary people, extraordinary things
- The house of cards
- Nothing to lose
- The impossible imagined
- The next to the last word
- The corporation or the cane?
- And then there was one
- Quite ordinary people
- The victim of success
- The golden links
- What's in a name?
- The process opens
- The jeweled bearing
- The odyssey
- Then providence moved too
- What can you do
- About the chaordic alliance
- A sample of chaordic alliance participation in the creation of new chaordic organizations.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1-58376-486-0
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