Margaret J. Wheatley and coauthor Myron Kellner-Rogers explore the
question: "How could we organize human endeavor if we developed
different understandings of how life organizes itself?" They draw on
the work of scientists, philosophers, poets, novelists, spiritual
teachers, colleagues, audiences, and their own experience in search
of new ways of understanding life and how organizing activities
occur. A Simpler Way presents a profoundly different world view that
can change how we live our lives and how we can create organizations
that thrive. A Simpler Way explores fundamental new beliefs about
organizations and life. Like Leadership and the New Science, this new
book is rooted in science but breaks new ground by developing
insights from literature, spiritual teachings, and direct experience.
The authors challenge many assumptions about life, organizations, and
change, while providing inspiration and guidance for readers on their
own journey to a simpler way to organize their endeavors. The authors
describe a new paradigm of life as self-organizing and coevolving,
drawing on sources that support modern science but predate its
findings by thousands of years. They examine five major themes-play,
organization, self, emergence, and coherence-each grounded in both
the science and philosophy of a world that knows how to organize
itself. Each theme is explored in depth, and then applied to how we
think about human organizations.
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