“We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big numbers, important trends, major variances. Yet it is the slight variations - soft-spoken, even whispered at first - that we need to encourage.”
Quote by Margaret J. Wheatley
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Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe
Leadership and the new science examines the parallels between the complexity of organizations and the patterns found in the natural world. The book investigates how insights from chaos theory, complexity science, and systems thinking can be utilized to enhance leadership and organizational effectiveness. more
Author
Margaret J. Wheatley
Margaret J. Wheatley is a renowned writer known for her work on organizational development and leadership. Born on August 17, 1944, her writings are celebrated for their deep insights into complexity and change. more
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