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This 3 page paper provides an overview of the central elements presented in Margaret Wheatley's book Leadership and the New Science. This paper considers the thesis presented by Wheatley and then its implications for applied management theory. No additional sources cited.
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of science and major discoveries in recent decades can be applied to understanding leadership, management and the development of organizational structure. In essence, Wheatley applies some of the basic
concepts behind modern scientific developments like quantum physics to the development of new management theories. Wheatleys central argument is that there are principles related to the new
sciences of the modern era, including chaos theory, which can be applied to management in an organizational structure. For example, Wheatley argues that by applying chaos theory to modern
management, it is possible to determine first how systems go from a state of order and control to one of chaos, and then how they also move from chaos to
order, suggesting the ability to assess change in the organizational structure. Wheatley then takes this perspective and applies it to leadership and management, suggesting that one of the differences
defined by considering chaos theory is that there is a fundamental difference between order and control and that it is possible to determine order without having to control organizational settings,
a management nightmare. Wheatley demonstrates through this example that it is possible to support, adapt and manage organizational settings in such a way as to determine active participation and
positive structural growth. Wheatley begins with the assertion that it is possible to determine a simpler means of management if individuals can accept the premise that the world can
be an orderly place, and that there are actually "self-organizing systems" inherent in the world. These arguments create the basis through which Wheatley can then apply the scientific view
she creates to the management of an organizational structure. Perhaps the most important premise, though, argued by Wheatley is the concept that the world functions best on a participatory
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