Finding Our Way
by Wheatley, Margaret J.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-02-14
Publisher(s): Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Summary
Though management expert Margaret Wheatley works with an unusually broad variety of clients from Fortune 100 CEOs to ministers, she points out that they all struggle to maintain integrity, humanity, and effectiveness in a relentlessly fast-paced, technology-driven world. Credited with establishing a fundamentally new approach to leadership based on living systems theory, or as she puts it - "how Life organizes" - Wheatley shares her first-ever compendium of essays about her real-world experiences helping clients introduce more authentic, life-affirming practices into their organizations. Essays cover a wide scope of topics including leadership strategies, raising children in turbulent times, and the role of communities in the life of organizations. Finding Our Way is filled with a wealth of practical advice on applying the ideas in Wheatley's groundbreaking books and has particular relevance for managers, administrators, and leaders who are trying to run their organizations in more progressive, egalitarian, and effective ways.
Table of Contents
| Opening : ancient Thera, modern teacher | p. 1 |
| The new story is ours to tell | p. 16 |
| The irresistible future of organizing | p. 32 |
| The promise and paradox of community | p. 45 |
| Relying on human goodness | p. 55 |
| The best in art and life | p. 58 |
| Goodbye, command and control | p. 64 |
| Relying on everyone's creativity | p. 75 |
| Bringing life to organizational change | p. 83 |
| Working with life's dynamics in school systems | p. 100 |
| When change is out of our control | p. 114 |
| Leadership in turbulent times is spiritual | p. 125 |
| The true professional | p. 134 |
| The real work of knowledge management | p. 144 |
| The uses and abuses of measurement | p. 156 |
| Name, connect, nourish, illuminate | p. 163 |
| Transforming aggression into creativity | p. 180 |
| Seven hundred years to go | p. 198 |
| Living our interconnectedness | p. 204 |
| Willing to be disturbed | p. 210 |
| Reclaiming time to think | p. 214 |
| Listening | p. 218 |
| Raising our children | p. 222 |
| Ending our silence | p. 226 |
| Everything has a deep dream | p. 230 |
| Consumed by either fire or fire | p. 236 |
| Maybe you will be the ones | p. 245 |
| America's dark night | p. 257 |
| Beyond hope or fear | p. 261 |
| Dreaming world | p. 265 |
| A parting blessing | p. 270 |
| Where these essays were first published | p. 274 |
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