"Finding Our Way" brings together Margaret Wheatley's shorter writings for the first time. But it is more than a compendium of previously published material. "The pieces presented here," Dr. Wheatley 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 ...
"I believe we can change the world if we start talking to one another again." With this simple declaration, author Margaret Wheatley proposes that we use the increasingly popular process of conversation and dialogue as the means to develop solutions for the societal changes that need to occur both locally and globally. Wheatley asserts that the ...
"Leadership and the New Science" is the bestselling, most acclaimed, and most influential guide to applying the new science (the recent discoveries in science that change our understanding of how the world works) to organisations, and our lives. As a new edition to this classic text, Wheatley shows how examples of non-linear networks and ...
Downsizing didn't produce the increase in productivity many companies expected. The reason, the authors of this text 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. Drawing on the work scientists, philosophers, poets, novelists, ...
our understanding of the universe is being radically altered by the "new science" - the revolutionary discoveries in quantum physics, chaos theory, and molecular biology that are overturning the models of science that have dominated for centuries. Now Margaret Wheatley shows how the new science provides equally powerful insights for transforming ...
"The World Cafe" is an easy-to-use process for fostering collaborative dialogue and creating innovative possibilities for action particularly in large groups. Anyone interested in creating "conversations that matter" can engage the World Cafe approach, with its' seven simple design principles, to improve people's collective capacity to share ...
A discussion of how the "new science" provides powerful insights into the design, leadership and management of organizations. This edition has been expanded and revised, and has an epilogue, in which Mary Wheatley chronicles her experiences since the first edition.
In the first edition of this text, Mary Wheatley showed how the "new science" provides powerful insights into the design, leadership and management of organizations. Now, in this revised and expanded edition, she sheds light on issues crucial to organizing work, people, and life. It is written in more accessible language and adds a new chapter to ...
In her landmark book Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach, celebrated adult educator Jane Vella outlined twelve principles of Dialogue Education, an approach to learning as a holistic, integrated, spiritual, and energetic process. Since the book was first published, her learning principles have been used in a wide variety of adult learning ...
"Authentic Conversations" takes a radical new look at the potentially transformational role of workplace conversations. The authors illustrate how conversation has the power to create, sustain, or change organizational culture.
Visual note-taking relies on paring down thoughts to key words and pictures. This introduction to this technique illustrates how relationships among various concepts are highlighted and more information can be recorded on a page. This helpful tool can be used for personal self-expression, curriculum planning, group processes, and as a teaching ...
Through research and in-depth interviews with seventeen educational leaders, the Scott Thompson explores new developments in the area of spiritual leadership for the systemic improvement of public schools.
This pioneering work shows how revolutionary discoveries in quantum physics, chaos theory, and biology provide powerful insights for transforming how we organize work, people and life.
Vivimos en organizaciones diseadas desde una concepcin newtoniana del universo. Conducimos empresas que debern sobrevivir en el siglo XXI con paradigmas y supuestos que provienen de la fsica del siglo XVII, pero la ciencia ha cambiado y si queremos seguir nutrindonos de los aportes del conocimiento, debemos al menos afirmar nuestro trabajo en la ...
This audiobook follows a pioneering book of the same name in 1992 that looked at how discoveries in quantum physics, chaos theory, and biology can revitalize organizational thinking. In this updated second edition, Wheatley shares how, in the past seven years, she has applied these ideas to diverse organizations around the world. Unabridged.
Using the language of the new sciences, the authors explain how a simpler way can be applied to organizations through play, the emergence of new structures, and the idea of "coherence". When the world is seen in a simpler way, they say, we can move with more assurance, the world supports our efforts and we can create, experiment, organize, fail, ...
This work gives readers the tools and insights they need to bring out the best in their people, and end unproductive disagreements between departments and individuals. It uses a simple ten-step process to energize work teams and put a spotlight on common priorities and concerns.
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