Leadership and the New Science
By Margaret Wheatley

Key features a bestseller--more than 300,000 copies sold, translated into seventeen languages, and featured in the los angeles times, washington post, miami herald, harvard business review, fast company, and fortune shows how discoveries in quantum physics, biology, and chaos theory enable us to deal successfully with change and uncertainty in our organizations and our lives includes a new chapter on how the new sciences can help us understand and cope with some of the major social challenges of our times about the book: leadership and the new science leadership and the new science is the bestselling, most acclaimed, and most influential guide to applying the new science to organizations and management. In it, wheatley describes how the new science radically alters our understanding of the world, and how it can teach us to live and work well together in these chaotic times. It will teach you how to move with greater certainty and easier grace into the new forms of organizations and communities that are taking shape. You'll learn that: relationships are what matters--even at the subatomic level life is a vast web of interconnections where cooperation and participation are required chaos and change are the only route to transformation in this expanded edition, wheatley provides examples of how nonlinear networks and self-organizing systems are flourishing in the modern world. In the midst of turbulence, wheatley shows, we create work and lives rich in meaning. About the author: margaret j. Wheatley margaret wheatley writes, teaches, and speaks about radically new practices and ideas for organizing in chaotic times. She works to create organizations of all types where people are known as the blessing, not the problem.