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This open access book offers a new management meta-theory to
replace Taylorism. It presents a new paradigm in management
thinking and a new, practical organizational model for implementing
it in our personal and working lives, in our companies, in our
communities and nations, and in a sustainable global order. It will
offer an understanding of why and how "thinking-as-usual" is
failing both business and political leaders in these new times, and
it will advocate new thinking and new management practices that are
so radically new that they turn everything we have taken for
granted inside out and upside down. This new management model is
called "Quantum Management Theory", because it is rooted in the new
paradigm bequeathed to us by quantum physics and its younger
sibling, complexity science.
Drawing inspiration from quantum physics, innovative management
thinker Danah Zohar offers a powerful new model for business
thinking and practice. "Quantum leaders," she says, like the
systems they have to manage, are poised at "the edge of chaos."
They thrive on the potential latent in uncertainty and are adept at
unleashing the creativity of self-organization. More important,
they are vision- and value-led; they adapt quickly, are unafraid to
play with the boundaries and reinvent the rules, and celebrate
diversity. Zohar points out that the existing, business-as-usual
paradigm owes a great deal to the outdated thinking, assumptions,
and values of Newtonian science, which gave rise to the Industrial
Revolution. Newtonian thinking assumes that corporations and
markets are like machines--predictable, stable, and controllable;
they are best managed in a way that eliminates risk and assures
equilibrium. Unfortunately, as the global financial collapse of
2008 demonstrated, this way of thinking is as obsolete as the steam
engine. Further developing ideas she introduced in her acclaimed
Rewiring the Corporate Brain and Spiritual Capital, Zohar has
written an inspirational book that will motivate leaders to tap the
full potential of their employees, their businesses, and the
customers they serve.
This open access book offers a new management meta-theory to
replace Taylorism. It presents a new paradigm in management
thinking and a new, practical organizational model for implementing
it in our personal and working lives, in our companies, in our
communities and nations, and in a sustainable global order. It will
offer an understanding of why and how "thinking-as-usual" is
failing both business and political leaders in these new times, and
it will advocate new thinking and new management practices that are
so radically new that they turn everything we have taken for
granted inside out and upside down. This new management model is
called "Quantum Management Theory", because it is rooted in the new
paradigm bequeathed to us by quantum physics and its younger
sibling, complexity science.
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