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Leadership and the New Science

Deming Institute

Leadership and the New Science: Learning about Organizations from an Orderly Universe by Margaret Wheatley does a good job of exploring how to view organizations as a system. That was something that made a lot of sense to how we were starting to think about organizations — as webs of relationships.

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The Wickedness Behind Most 21st-Century Leadership Failures

Harvard Business Review

The race is on between the complexity that is confronting organizations and their ability to respond to it. However, systems thinking, chaos theory, power laws, and the like are not enough. Brilliant leadership is now about brilliant facilitation. Leaders are behind and need to catch up.