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In a world marked by polarization and irrationality, the author explores the challenges of navigating modern life filled with distractions and bureaucratic inefficiencies. Drawing from new scientific insights, the book offers two types of maps: one that explains the dynamics of our harsh reality and another that encourages readers to embrace roles as warriors for the human spirit. With a focus on developing essential qualities like insight and compassion, this heartfelt work inspires readers to redefine their purpose and find strength in difficult times.

Revolutionary discoveries in quantum physics, chaos theory, and biology are explored to provide transformative insights into organizing work, people, and life. The author challenges conventional thinking about organizations and human interactions, offering a fresh perspective that encourages innovation and adaptability. Accompanied by color photos, this work serves as a guide for those seeking to rethink their approach to collaboration and structure in various settings.

Exploring the intersection of quantum physics, biology, and chaos theory, this influential guide reveals how these new sciences can help us navigate change and uncertainty in both organizations and our personal lives. It emphasizes the inherent chaos of our world while highlighting the natural order that emerges from it. The book also includes insights on addressing contemporary social challenges, encouraging new ideas and relationships for thriving in a chaotic environment. Wheatley offers a transformative perspective on leadership and collaboration in evolving communities.

Leadership and the New Science launched a revolution by demonstrating that ideas drawn from quantum physics, chaos theory, and molecular biology could improve organizational performance. Margaret Wheatley called for free-flowing information, individual empowerment, relationship networks, and organizational change that evolves organically -- ideas that have become commonplace. Now Wheatley's updated classic, based on her experiences with these ideas in a diverse number of organizations on five continents, is available in paperback.

"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