Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business
 

Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business

by Richard Pascale, Mark Milleman, Linda Gioja

Surfing the Edge of Chaos is a brilliant, powerful, and practical book about the parallels between business and nature—two fields that feature nonstop battles between the forces of tradition and the forces of transformation. It offers a bold new way of thinking about and responding to the personal and strategic challenges everyone in business faces these days. (read review)

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Managers should closely watch new discoveries in biology, especially the study of self-organization and emergence, particularly as the old hierarchical model of corporate organization becomes seemingly obsolete. Richard T. Pascale, Mark Millemann and Linda Gioja present case histories showing how corporate leaders executed turnarounds and solved critical problems by tapping the insight and intelligence of their organizations’ members. In many cases, however, their success was only partial. It...

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