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Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time

Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time

Author: Margaret J. Wheatley
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler
Publication Date: 11 Mar 2007
ISBN-13: 9781576754054
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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.


Table of 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


Author Description


About Margaret J. Wheatley
Margaret Wheatley is president emerita of The Berkana Institute and an internationally acclaimed speaker and writer. She has been an organizational consultant and researcher since 1973, and has been Associate Professor of Management at the Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University, and Cambridge College, Massachusetts. She is the author of the bestselling Leadership and the New and Turning to One Another and coauthor of A Simpler Way.






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