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Strikingly different from most business books--it opens and closes with a pair of very powerful black-and-white photo essays, for example--A Simpler Way lays out a fascinating and productive reexamination of the traditional tenets of organizational behavior. Internationally known consultants Margaret J. Wheatley (Leadership and the New Science) and Myron Kellner-Rogers focus on the basic themes of play, organization, self, emergence, and notions of coherence to explore how people really systemize their existence. The authors draw upon science, poetry, philosophy, and other unconventional corporate resources to suggest a completely original method of working together. "There is a simpler way to organize human endeavor," they write. "It requires a new way of being in the world. It requires being in the world without fear. Being in the world with play and creativity. Seeking after what's possible. Being willing to learn and to be surprised."
While A Simpler Way may appear too New Age for some readers, this beautifully produced book hits the mark by bringing together an array of unexpected ideas as the authors look anew at established theories of human behavior to propose a decidedly unique way of promoting organization and achieving success. --Howard Rothman
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Wheatley's Leadership and the New Science was named "management book of the year" by Industry Week for 1992. The book took such an unusual approach to organizational management that it was classed by catalogers with general science rather than management theory. In it, Wheatley argued that in the past management attempted to make parts of the whole work together; he called this approach the Newtonian method. Wheatley advocates instead a quantum theory approach, which assumes that organizations are chaotic. In this new book, Wheatley and Kellner-Rogers expand on those ideas. The two are partners at their own consulting firm, and both are leaders at the Berkana Institute in Sundance, Utah. They propose that leaders follow nature, that nature manages itself and is self-organizing, and that play is an important part of this organizing tendency. They challenge the Darwinian view of nature based on competition and disclaim management by fear. Expect demand from self-help and business readers. David Rouse
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It's late on a Sunday night and I've just finished reading "A Simpler Way" for the second time. It's one of those books that repays multiple readings as you delve deeper into what the authors are saying. It may be the best book I've ever read about creativity and organizational change, and I've read a bunch of 'em. It may change your life, if you let it. It's not "too New Age" at all - it's firmly grounded in the latest thinking in biology and other sciences. Basically, it says we are too controlled by inaccurate images of the world - specifically, the Darwinist belief in the "struggle" to survive and the machine metaphor. These two ways of looking at the world have predominated for decades now, and have percolated down into our lives, so that we think that such things as struggle, fierce competition, control, planning, rigidity, coercion, and so on, are the ways life is, and are the ways to organize our lives. WRONG, say the authors. The world actually is very different from what the Darwinists and the machine-as-metaphor people have said. According to the latest and best studies of evolution, biology, physics, nature, etc., the world is a lot more interested in cooperation, connections, synergy, alliances, freedom, etc., than we thought, and we can, if we're brave enough, allow THESE images of the world to pervade our lives and our companies.
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Margaret Wheatley does an excellent job outlining what's wrong with earlier management theories. She then summarizes why theories about complex dynamical systems (complex adaptive systems, self-organizing systems -- whatever names they variously go by!) are better suited as metaphors for management.
For those who can apply the theories to management issues themselves, a more in-depth explanation of the theories is found in Paul Cilliers' Complexity and Postmodernism, and Alicia Juarrero's Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System -- in addition to both books entitled "Complexity" (by Roger Lewin and Mitchell Waldrup).
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I fortunately read this book just a couple of weeks before I was unexpectedly laid off. Keeping the book's precepts in mind made the transition unstressful and successful. An excellent setting out of a point of view that supports exploration without fear. Highly recommended.
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A disappointment
Simply put, the book lacks content. Not only are the words and paragraphs rather sparsely distributed throughout the pages, but little knowledge is actually shared with the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. Juli 1998 veröffentlicht
a stunning view of life
living live without the fear of western-oriented philosophical thought...messy and creative, this book was a gift, perhaps not too late in life.
Am 26. April 1998 veröffentlicht
Does your organization have room for wisdom?
Most management theories and methods are based on control and competition. Managers lead through their personal influence over a certain system and they must compete with other... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 23. Juni 1997 veröffentlicht
This one is definitely an eye-opener
Normally, I don't like books that try to describe how organizations should work. They tend to be very...how should I say this...linear. _A Simpler Way_ isn't a book like this. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. Februar 1997 veröffentlicht
SIMPLE THOUGHTS YIELD COMPLEX IMPLICATIONS
Rarely do you read a text where you find yourself nodding almost nonstop, highlighting with wild abandon, and finally, feeling that somehow you and others will be transformed by... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 17. November 1996 veröffentlicht
A book with which to launch an exploration
A Simpler Way is a beautiful object as well as being a lovely book. It's engaging cover photo, the texture of the paper, the size of the pages, the open and clean use of white... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. Oktober 1996 veröffentlicht
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