Margaret Wheatley Books

"BESTSELLING BOOK: More than 30,000 copies sold of First Edition. MORE TIMELY EVERY YEAR: As people become more deeply divided around the world, lose faith in institutions, and grow in confusion, anger, and despair, the messages of this book are increasingly relevant, needed, and powerful. A GUIDE FOR LEADERS IN ALL KINDS OF ORGANIZATIONS-helping them choose a role of meaning and service in a rapidly darkening time. EVERY CHAPTER IS UPDATED. The core messages remain the same, but new perspectives and timely new information are included throughout the Second Edition. THREE NEW CHAPTERS: "Whatever Happened to Reality?"; "The Weaponizing of Information"; "Choosing a Path of Service and Meaning.""--

"Each of us lives and works in organizations designed from Newtonian images of the universe," Margaret Wheatley writes in this groundbreaking book. "Our assumptions come to us from seventeenth-century physics, from Newtonian mechanics. ... But the science has changed. If we are to continue to draw from the sciences to create and manage organizations, then we need to at least ground our work in the science of our times. We need to stop seeking after the universe of the seventeenth century and begin to explore what has become known to us in the twentieth century."" "Wheatley takes the reader on a mind-opening journey into the "new science"--The revolutionary discoveries in quantum physics, chaos theory, and molecular biology that are changing our understanding of the universe. And she applies these scientific concepts to offer new light on the fundamental issues of organizing work, people, and life, including : how can we find order in a chaotic world?; how is order different than control?; how can we create more participative, open, and adaptive organizations?; how can we reconcile individual autonomy and organizational control?; and what leads to organizational growth and self-renewal instead of decline and death?"--Jaquette

Though management expert Margaret Wheatley works with a broad variety of clients, she points out that they all struggle to maintain integrity, humanity, and effectiveness in a fast-paced, technology-driven world. Credited with establishing a new approach to leadership based on living systems theory, Wheatley shares her first compendium of essays about her real-world experiences helping clients introduce more authentic, life-affirming practices into their organizations. Essays cover a wide scope of topics including leadership strategies, raising children in turbulent times, and the role of communities in the life of organizations. Finding Our Way is filled with practical advice on applying the ideas in Wheatley's groundbreaking books and has particular relevance for managers, administrators, and leaders who are trying to run their organizations in more progressive, egalitarian, and effective ways.

Downsizing didn't produce the increase in productivity many companies expected. The reason, the authors argue, is that we are still expecting human qualities from mechanistic structures - the way we develop organizations depends heavily on how we organize our lives. The authors search for new ways of relating life and the process of evolution to explore how organizing activities occur. They present a different world view that could help us create organizations that thrive, challenging many assumptions about life, organizations, and change. The Newtonian model of the world and organizations, and the Darwinian notion of survival of the fittest are tackled head-on: life isn't based on experimentation, relationships, and diversity.

POZVÁNÍ NA CESTU BOJOVNÍKA Tuto knihu jsem psala pro vás, kteří se svou prací, ať už jakoukoli, snažíte pomáhat druhým. A kteří se v dnešní době cítíte stále vyčerpanější, frustrovanější a zdeptanější, přestože zároveň zažíváte chvíle radosti, sounáležitosti a pevnějšího odhodlání pokračovat. Tato kniha radí, jak můžeme aktivně, obětavě a s potěšením provozovat své živobytí, když si vědomě zvolíme novou roli – roli bojovníků za lidského ducha. Tato kniha mapuje cesty, po nichž jsme dospěli až sem – do světa, který nikdo z nás nechce, kde převládla chamtivost, sobectví a represivní moc – pravý opak toho, oč jsme tak horlivě usilovali. Mapy těchto cest ukazují ve vší nahotě chmurnou realitu dneška a projasňují nám úsudek, který potřebujeme, chceme-li být skutečně užiteční. Tato kniha nabízí mapy pro budoucnost – vedoucí k proměně smutku, rozhořčení a frustrace v pochopení a soucit, abychom mohli této době sloužit se ctí, ohleduplností a odvahou. Jako bojovníci za lidského ducha objevujeme, jak dělat správně svou práci, která je naším celoživotním posláním. S nadšením se zapojujeme do dění, ztělesňujeme hodnoty, které jsou nám drahé, nelpíme na výsledcích a pečujeme o vztahy s druhými lidmi. Sloužíme lidem a věcem, na nichž nám záleží, a změnou chceme spíše být, než jí dosáhnout. Pojďme společně objevovat toto „umění boje“.