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Shelfari edited the description of Birth of the Chaordic Age Saturday, August 1 2009.

In Birth of the Chaordic Age , Dee Hock argues that traditional organizational forms can no longer work because organizations have become too complex. Hock advocates a new organizational form that he calls "chaordic," or simultaneously chaotic and orderly. He credits the worldwide success of VISA to its chaordic structure: It is owned by its member banks, which both compete with each other for customers and cooperate by honoring one another's transactions across borders and currencies. The book shows how these same chaordic concepts are now being put into practice in a broad range of business, social, community, and government organizations.

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Shelfari edited the first sentence of Birth of the Chaordic Age Friday, July 17 2009.

"Nine hours we have happily worked the hillside together, a sixty-five-year-old man and Thee Ancient One, a diesel crawler-tractor of indeterminate age and lineage."

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