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A 5 page book review that discusses Margaret Wheatley's Leadership and the New Science, which addresses the revolutionary nature of the latest scientific discoveries coming from the realms of quantum physics, self-organizing systems, and chaos theory. The writer summarizes the main points of the book, which include: how Newtonian physics affected the modern business world; the fundamental principles of the new science; and how this information is already affecting how we view organizational structure. No additional sources cited.
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theory. Business readers may question what this premise has to do with either leadership or management principles. However, it is Newtonian physics and the worldview of the Enlightenment that produced
the modern business world and its vision of reality as quantifiable. In a similar manner, Wheatley points out that the "new science" describes a very different version of reality; one
in which there are no "recipes or formulas, no checklists or expert advice that describe reality" (Wheatley 9). In other words, Wheatley, first of all, explains how the world is
a much more complicated place than the one envisioned by Newton, and secondly, she shows how this new scientific understanding impacts our understanding of organizations and how they function.
In the first chapters of her book, Wheatley introduces the new sciences and how they affect our understanding of reality, that is, "the way the world works" (Wheatley xv). She
also addresses how past conditioning has limited the ways in which people can appreciate the way that order is created within a living system. In Chapters two through four, the
author explores the mysteries of quantum physics and how this information holds implications for organizational practices. Wheatley describes the typical process of an organizational meeting, one in which business
leaders create charts, statistics and graphs that have at their core the notion that an organization is like a complex machine that can be understood and "fixed" by imposing a
pattern from the outside, as dictated by the Newtonian worldview. The author then goes on to describe a vastly different view of the world, the view of quantum physics, in
which the laws of cause and effect evaporate and nothing is as it first seems. While scientists still give the tiniest building blocks of the universe names, such as neutrons,
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