Margaret Wheatley Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Bestselling author provides visionary leaders with essential tools to cultivate organizations that promote generosity, creativity, and kindness amid chaos. In our tumultuous times, we face increasing disruption, propaganda, and violence, leading to heightened tensions and despair. Margaret Wheatley argues that leaders must resist this despair and foster islands of sanity in a world filled with delusion. Sane leadership embodies the belief that people can be generous and creative, and it is the leader's role to create conditions that allow these qualities to flourish. Addressing the chaos requires both inner and outer work. The book begins by focusing on leaders themselves, offering practices to calm the mind, manage emotions, and communicate honestly. It then guides leaders in establishing islands of sanity through methods such as enhancing their organization's self-organizing abilities, conducting after-action reviews that emphasize learning over blame, and leveraging diversity for broader perspectives on pressing challenges. Wheatley encourages leaders to become Warriors for the Human Spirit, fostering communities that shield individuals from destructive dynamics and rekindle our shared humanity.

POZVÁNÍ NA CESTU BOJOVNÍKA Tuto knihu jsem psala pro vás, kteří se svou prací, ať už jakoukoli, snažíte pomáhat druhým. A kteří se v dnešní době cítíte stále vyčerpanější, frustrovanější a zdeptanější, přestože zároveň zažíváte chvíle radosti, sounáležitosti a pevnějšího odhodlání pokračovat. Tato kniha radí, jak můžeme aktivně, obětavě a s potěšením provozovat své živobytí, když si vědomě zvolíme novou roli – roli bojovníků za lidského ducha. Tato kniha mapuje cesty, po nichž jsme dospěli až sem – do světa, který nikdo z nás nechce, kde převládla chamtivost, sobectví a represivní moc – pravý opak toho, oč jsme tak horlivě usilovali. Mapy těchto cest ukazují ve vší nahotě chmurnou realitu dneška a projasňují nám úsudek, který potřebujeme, chceme-li být skutečně užiteční. Tato kniha nabízí mapy pro budoucnost – vedoucí k proměně smutku, rozhořčení a frustrace v pochopení a soucit, abychom mohli této době sloužit se ctí, ohleduplností a odvahou. Jako bojovníci za lidského ducha objevujeme, jak dělat správně svou práci, která je naším celoživotním posláním. S nadšením se zapojujeme do dění, ztělesňujeme hodnoty, které jsou nám drahé, nelpíme na výsledcích a pečujeme o vztahy s druhými lidmi. Sloužíme lidem a věcem, na nichž nám záleží, a změnou chceme spíše být, než jí dosáhnout. Pojďme společně objevovat toto „umění boje“.

"BESTSELLING BOOK: More than 30,000 copies sold of First Edition. MORE TIMELY EVERY YEAR: As people become more deeply divided around the world, lose faith in institutions, and grow in confusion, anger, and despair, the messages of this book are increasingly relevant, needed, and powerful. A GUIDE FOR LEADERS IN ALL KINDS OF ORGANIZATIONS-helping them choose a role of meaning and service in a rapidly darkening time. EVERY CHAPTER IS UPDATED. The core messages remain the same, but new perspectives and timely new information are included throughout the Second Edition. THREE NEW CHAPTERS: "Whatever Happened to Reality?"; "The Weaponizing of Information"; "Choosing a Path of Service and Meaning.""--

Though management expert Margaret Wheatley works with a broad variety of clients, she points out that they all struggle to maintain integrity, humanity, and effectiveness in a fast-paced, technology-driven world. Credited with establishing a new approach to leadership based on living systems theory, Wheatley shares her first compendium of essays about her real-world experiences helping clients introduce more authentic, life-affirming practices into their organizations. Essays cover a wide scope of topics including leadership strategies, raising children in turbulent times, and the role of communities in the life of organizations. Finding Our Way is filled with practical advice on applying the ideas in Wheatley's groundbreaking books and has particular relevance for managers, administrators, and leaders who are trying to run their organizations in more progressive, egalitarian, and effective ways.

Downsizing didn't produce the increase in productivity many companies expected. The reason, the authors argue, is that we are still expecting human qualities from mechanistic structures - the way we develop organizations depends heavily on how we organize our lives. The authors search for new ways of relating life and the process of evolution to explore how organizing activities occur. They present a different world view that could help us create organizations that thrive, challenging many assumptions about life, organizations, and change. The Newtonian model of the world and organizations, and the Darwinian notion of survival of the fittest are tackled head-on: life isn't based on experimentation, relationships, and diversity.

This pioneering work shows how revolutionary discoveries in quantum physics, chaos theory, and biology provide powerful insights for transforming how we organize work, people and life. ''Margaret Wheatley pushes our thinking about people and organizations to a new level''. - Ken Blanchard. Color photos.