Margeret Wheatley, EdD, writes, teaches and speaks about how to restore hope and sanity to organizations. She has been a management professor and consultant since 1973. She travels the world willingly in support of life-affirming leaders everywhere.
"One of the top ten business books of all time."
--Xerox Business Services Magazine
"Meg Wheatley gave the world a new way of thinking about
organizations with her revolutionary application of the natural
sciences to business management. . . . Her ideas have found welcome
homes in the military, not-for-profit organizations, public
schools, health care and churches as well as In corporations. . .
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--American Society For Training And Development
"A book like leadership and the new science only comes along once
in a decade. Margaret Wheatley pushes our thinking about people and
organizations to a new dimension. You will never think about
organizational life in the same way again."
--Ken Blanchard, Coauthor Of The One Minute Manager
"If there's a single book that sets the stage for the future of
organizations, this is it . . . Wheatley makes complex ideas
simple, and then shows how those simple ideas can be used as
powerful tools."
--Stephen E. Ewing, President And Ceo, Michigan Consolidated Gas
Company
"Leadership and the new science surpasses all books to date in
management science. It is truly in a class by itself, introducing a
standard of excellence in thought and perception against which all
other management books and thought will surely be measured."
--Gerene Schmidt, Founder And Ceo, Science, Business, And
Education, Inc.
"If you want to think about change and organizations in an entirely
new way . . . Read this book now."
--John R. Berry, Vice President, Corporate Communications, Herman
Miller, Inc.
"Hold onto the top of your head when you read this book. . . .
Using exciting breakthroughs in biology, chemistry, and especially
quantum physics, Wheatley paints a brand-new picture of business
management. This new relationship between business and science is
nothing less than an entirely new set of lenses through which to
view our organizations."
--Library Journal
"An extraordinary book. The new physics is opening frontiers of
knowledge that are among the most significant of this century.
Applying these discoveries to management and leadership is
extraordinarily eye-opening."
--Marjorie Kelly, Founder And Publisher, Business Ethics Magazine
And Author Of The Divine Right Of Capital
"Years ahead of its time, this daring book will convince you that
leaders must substitute their Newtonian mental model for a
biological model in organizations of every size. . . . Your
employees are already getting hip to this stuff. You'd be wise to
catch up."
--The Wall Street Journal
." . . A thought-provoking work for practitioners and students who
are serious about wanting to understand the forces impacting
organizations and them- selves, and who desire to move forward to
achieve goals and objectives."
--Choice
"A breakthrough. Wheatley has taken leadership to the cutting
edge."
--Marilyn Ferguson, Author Of The Aquarian Conspiracy And Editor Of
Brain/Mind
And Common Sense
"A work of immense importance in management and science. . . .
[Wheatley] writes about scientific theory with clarity and
precision--yet her observations are unfailingly poetic and
human."
--The Salt Lake Tribune
"Wheatley's message is brilliant and it encourages a provocative
paradigm shift. Her explanations of quantum theory reduce what
could be a mind- boggling complexity into an unpretentious beauty
that even a science-challenged person can understand."
--Andrea Markowitz, Adjunct Professor, University Of Baltimore
"Leadership and the new science is a wonderful book, at once clear
and profound, practical yet poetic. It is a lot like the new
sciences it describes."
--Timeline
"This beautifully written and compelling book is a gift to many of
us who wrestle without the relationship between scientific thinking
and organizational life."
--Judy Sorum Brown, Educator, Writer, And Senior Fellow, Aspen
Institute
"A warning to anyone who picks this book up . . . Be prepared to
throw out almost everything you think you know about organizations,
management, and leadership while reading this book. . . . It is
quite literally one of the most interesting books I have ever
read."
--Journal For Quality And Participation
"A pioneering voyage of discovery into the essential elegance and
simplicity of organizations. This is a book that must be read by
any thinking manager, consultant, or professor who wishes to shake
loose the shackles of limiting, old- world views and be free to
explore the bountiful possibilities of what is in front of us."
--Jim Kouzes, Coauthor Of The Leadership Challenge And
Credibility
"One of the ten books of the decade that are must-reads for
information systems professionals."
--Cio Magazine
"Meg Wheatley has a way of helping us to discover that which was
there but remained unseen and that which we knew but did not
recognize. A great teacher, she makes discovery a joyous and
sought-after experience."
--Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut And Author Of The Way Of The
Explorer
"Any individual involved with organizational leadership needs to
read this book."
--Carlson Learning Company Journal
"If you are committed to humane, democratic, and highly productive
corporations and communities, you have to pay attention to
leadership and the new science. Wheatley's integration of the new
science and its implications for leading organizations are, I
believe, at the cutting edge of a whole new theory and practice of
organizations badly needing to be born."
--Marvin Weisbord, author of productive workplaces and discovering
common ground, and coauthor of future search
"Wheatley's new and deep insights are must reading for any
management consultant who is serious about making a difference in
the world."
--Journal Of Management Consulting
"Beautifully written and produced. A wonderful road map into the
new science. . . . It should be on all of our bookshelves, and we
should have extra copies available to send to our clients and
friends."
--The Chaos Network Newsletter
"Wheatley's book should be on every manager's, hrd specialist's,
and OD practioner's bookshelf, and the concepts therein
incorporated into our own understanding of organizations. . . .
Even if you reject some of her notions, the book will make you
think about what you do, why you do it, and the assumptions,
filters, and biases you carry around with you."
--OD Practitioner Journal
"When I was a corporate CEO, I was astonished by leadership and the
new science. It affirmed for me that everything in organizational
life--indeed I could say in life itself--is about relationships. It
was so wise, so insightful, and so abundantly graceful. . . . I
frequently call on Meg's work. She became both teacher and prophet
in my mind. And yes, she became and still is, one of my heroes. . .
. Her open, wise, and generous spirit is an example for all of
us."
--James Autry, Bestselling Author And Former CEO, Meredith
Corporation
"This is one of those seminal books that, once read, can continue
to live on in the psyche, reshaping one's world-view permanently.
To borrow an image from one of the new sciences contemplated in the
book, it may well be like the butterfly in Tokyo whose flapping
wings generate a tornado in Texas; it may fan subtle winds of
change that eventually amass enough energy to transform corporate
organizations into systems barely recognizable to us today."
--The Advocate Newsletter
"I read leadership and the new science with fascination and awe. .
. . It is one of the most provocative and exciting books i have
read in years."
--H. Thomas Johnson, Retzlaff professor of quality management,
Portland State University
"This is one of the most wonderful books I have ever read. It is a
work of art. Wheatley's writing style and communication of ideas
have such underlying elegance that they demonstrate what she is
writing about--again and again in myriad ways."
Ñ Barbara shipka, author of leadership in a challenging world
"I would never have guessed that any book could have held me in
such fascination as has leadership and the new science. . . . It
will enrich the lives of everyone who reads it."
--Rosemarie Liebmann, Adjunct Professor, Seton Hall University
"Having just finished leadership and the new science, I am
compelled to write to tell you what a great impact it has had on my
thinking . . . Once I got started reading it, I could not put it
down. I also started highlighting the 're- ally good' stuff, and
your entire book is now green neon. The metaphors you have used are
so powerful and created such vivid images in my head that they are
now indelibly imprinted there."
--Michael F. Werneke, Manager, Human Resource Development, Cytec
Industries
"Leadership and the new science is the best book on organizational
leadership that i have read in ten years. It reminds me of the life
magazine issue devoted to Picasso. That excited me like few other
things. I could not put it down. It captured my imagination and led
me to a new plane for living and working. . . . That is what
happened with Wheatley's book. It has the same kind of vision and
uniqueness. It predicts the future and explains the present like
only artists can. This book has helped me impart to others a
totally unique kind of trust and courage that works, but seems to
go completely contrary to the grain. Simply, it is exquisite."
--Lee M. Hogan, President, Lee Hogan & Associates, And Member Of
The Board Of Directors Of Associated Consultants International
"Wheatley's interpretation of the 'new science'--quantum physics,
biology, and chaos theory--into the organizing concepts of work and
productivity is pure genius."
--The New Leaders
"The work you do in the world is a wonder, Meg--so upstream to the
way things appear on the surface, but so in harmony with deep-down
dynamics of reality. It is a source of great joy to me to think
that I have had a small part in the great work you do."
--Parker Palmer, Educator And Author
"Meg Wheatley's pioneering insights into the self-organizing nature
of our world have been remarkably well supported by recent advances
in the new sciences. But what really makes leadership and the new
science so enduring is that it offers us a solid place to stand
amidst the chaos and complexity. We need this book more than
ever."
--Allan Cohen, Former Senior Vice President, Zefer, Former Coo,
Waite & Company
"I admire the clarity, beauty, and passion with which you travel
your chosen path. Without question, you are having considerable
impact both here and abroad."
--Robert Tannenbaum, A Founder Of The Field Of Od
"I believe that if this book was translated into Russian, it would
make an invaluable contribution to our modern culture. It has made
a huge impression on me not only for its simple, natural words, but
the sense of novelty, and singularity of approach. This book for me
was certainly a revelation, one of those books that make it
worthwhile to study English."
--Mikhail Kutyrev, Russia, Former Fishing Fleet Captain
"I've spent the last few days devouring leadership and the new
science, eulogizing about it to my wife, commenting to the friend
who lent me the book. 'I'm not sure if it is true, but I really
want it to be.' the truth of the matter is that much of what you
have written I instinctively know to be true but I have never had
quite the words to express it."
--Steve Clifford, Leadership Development Consultant, England
"I was inspired and provoked by your writings to adapt your
concepts to the situation of incarcerated individuals. . . . My
work is with alcoholics and chemically abusing or addicted
individuals. I believe your concepts are a perfect vehicle to reach
people who are stuck in denial . . . And your concepts help provide
information in a non-threatening and easily understood manner."
--Diana Arostegui, Washington
"Your book speaks to me and I speak to it. I am a practicing
lawyer, now almost 75. . . . I always feel the interconnections of
everything and the joy of uncertainty and unknowing and am always
excited about ideas that I had never thought of and couldn't have
by myself."
--Dorothy Stulberg, Tennessee
"When we can get people to perceive our organizations differently,
they are better able to relate to one another in them. Here is
where I find that the 'secular' insights of your book and the
'spiritual' notion of communion are powerful complements to one
another. Your simplicity, your directness, and your imagination
combine to provide insights that are accessible and
compelling."
--M.B. (Jerry) Handspicker, Professor Of Pastoral Theology
(Emeritus), Andover Newton Theological School
"Leadership and the new science . . . Is one of those books that
held me spellbound with every turn of the page. I felt a keen sense
of disappointment when I realized I had come to the last page. You
have a gift, Margaret Wheatley, and I am grateful beyond my ability
to express that I have been a recipient of it."
--Maura Jones, North Dakota
." . . I am very encouraged that there is still reason to believe
ardently in the great resilience of the human spirit to re-invent
itself over and over again, whether we view it fractally or as the
first signs of a dawning and long awaited millennium of harmony and
happiness for everyone. Perhaps what you are de- scribing is the
forerunner not only of new leadership skills and deeper
understanding one of another, but also the advent of greater
openness of mind and genuine honesty between us all at all levels
of communication."
--Reverend Mary Fourchalk, B.C., Canada
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