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Leadership and the New Science

Deming Institute

A quote by Meg Wheatley from an interview long after the publication of the book does a good job of capturing the ideas explored in the book: How do you understand a world in which the only material form is that of relationships, and where there is no sense of an individual that exists independent of its relationships?

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The Wickedness Behind Most 21st-Century Leadership Failures

Harvard Business Review

However, systems thinking, chaos theory, power laws, and the like are not enough. As Chief Facilitation Officers, leaders must resist the temptation to hurry through the exploration of wicked problems, and just as importantly, resist the pull of management teams and boards to rush to consensus.