Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (UK PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS Management / Business) - Softcover

Margaret J. Wheatley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1576754057 ISBN 13: 9781576754054

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007

Synopsis

Though management expert Margaret J. Wheatley works with a 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 lives of organizations. Finding Our Way is filled with practical advice on applying the ideas in Wheatley's groundbreaking books and has particular relevance for managers and leaders who are trying to run their organizations in more progressive, egalitarian, and effective ways.

About this title

Synopsis:

"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 not just a collection of articles. I updated, revised, or substantially added to the original content of each one. In this way, everything written here represents my current views on the subjects I write about."These collected articles support the practices of people and leaders in many different types of organizations, communities, and cultures. With audiences including: school leaders, corporate leaders, religious leaders, parents, community organizers, and teenagers, these articles span the globe, drawing on Wheatley's decade of experience working all over the world. Provocative, challenging, at times poetic, often deeply moving, "Finding Our Way" sums up Wheatley's thinking on a divers scope of topics, from leadership and management, to social change, and to our personal role in these turbulent times.

About the Author:

Margaret Wheatley is president emerita of The Berkana Institute and an internationally acclaimed speaker and writer. She has been an organizational consultant and researcher since 1973, and has been Associate Professor of Management at the Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University, and Cambridge College, Massachusetts. She is the author of the bestselling Leadership and the New and Turning to One Another and coauthor of A Simpler Way.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1576754057
• ISBN 13: 9781576754054
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 297