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Cargando... A Simpler Waypor Margaret J. Wheatley, Myron Kellner-Rogers (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Vague, abstract, slightly frustrating, and comforting in its hopeful point of view. Life is playful, self-referential, messy, self-organizing, and a mutually co-dependent dance of exploration. Recommended for C. Alexander fans, systems folks, Caprof disciples, poets, ponderers, wanderers, the org.-minded, and anyone who's got the funny feeling that things just aren't right. ( ) After reading Leadership and the New Science about 8 years ago, I was excited to find this book in a used bookstore not long ago. Unfortunately, I found that it spent too much time repeating the same "keep life simple, things have a way of organizing themselves from chaos to order, don't try to impose too much organization" messages over and over again, sometimes within the same chapter, sometimes across various different chapters. It sounded preachy rather than enlightening. I finally resorted to skimming the last few chapters before calling it quits. Margaret Wheatley & Myron Kellner-Rogers explore the primary 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, & their own experience in search of new ways of understanding life & how organizing activities occur. They describe a new paradigm of life as self-organizing & coevolving. A Simpler Way presents a profoundly different worldview that could change how we live our lives & our ability to create organizations that thrive. The authors examine five major themes-play, organization, self, emergence, & coherence-each grounded in both the science & philosophy of a world that knows how to organize itself. Each theme is explored in depth & then applied to how we think about human organizations. A Simpler Way explores fundamental new beliefs about organizations & life. The authors challenge many assumptions about life, organizations, & change while providing inspiration & guidance for readers on their own journey to a simpler way to organize their endeavors. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"We want life to be less arduous and more delightful. We want to be able to think differently about how to organize human activities." So begins A Simpler Way, an exploration of a radically different world view that will reshape how we think about organizing all human endeavor. 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. The book begins and ends with photo essays, providing visual imagery that recalls readers to their own experience with a world that is creative, playful, and self-organizing. Written in a relaxed, poetic, and inviting style, the book welcomes the reader into this exploration of a new way of being in the world, one which can give us increased organizing capacity and effectiveness with less of the stress that plagues us now. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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