{"product_id":"leadership-and-the-new-science","title":"Leadership and the New Science","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost management thinking still runs on a mechanical, Newtonian picture of the world — predictable, controllable, assembled from separate parts. Wheatley's argument is that the picture is wrong, and that the new sciences offer a truer one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on quantum physics, chaos theory, and the biology of living systems, \u003cem\u003eLeadership and the New Science\u003c\/em\u003e reframes organizations as webs of relationship rather than machines to be engineered. Wheatley traces how order in nature emerges without central control — how self-organizing systems, fields, and participation generate coherence out of apparent chaos — and from these findings draws a different practice of leadership, grounded in trust, meaning, and the relationships that actually hold a system together. First published in 1992 and revised across later editions, it remains a foundational text for rethinking how organizations live and change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Margaret J. Wheatley\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Berrett-Koehler Publishers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1992 (revised and expanded edition)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author — Margaret J. Wheatley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriter, teacher, and management consultant who has worked with organizations and leaders on every continent for more than four decades. Co-founder of the Berkana Institute, she holds a doctorate from Harvard's program in administration, planning, and social policy, and has authored numerous influential books on leadership and living systems, including \u003cem\u003eTurning to One Another\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWho Do We Choose to Be?\u003c\/em\u003e Her work bridges organizational science with a deeply humane view of how people find their way together in uncertain times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BK Quanta","offers":[{"title":"Margaret J. Wheatly \/ Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc \/ 2006-08-15","offer_id":30763720605833,"sku":"9781576753446","price":35.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0055\/0012\/products\/9781576753446.gif?v=1613634773","url":"https:\/\/www.alternity.ca\/products\/leadership-and-the-new-science","provider":"Alternity","version":"1.0","type":"link"}