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Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future
by Margaret J. Wheatley

“I believe we can change the world if we start talking to one another again.”

With this simple declaration, author Margaret Wheatley proposes that we use the increasingly popular process of conversation and dialogue as the means to develop solutions for the societal changes that need to occur both locally and globally. Wheatley asserts that the changes required in all aspects of modern life will not come from governments or large organizations, national programs, new policies or laws. The changes will be led by people—everyday people self-organizing locally with colleagues and friends to create the changes they want.

Turning to One Another will help you begin conversations about things that are important to you. Wheatley begins by describing several conditions that support good conversation, including simplicity, personal courage, real listening, diversity, and several others. Ten short essays will act as “Conversation Starters,” leading people into conversations about their deepest beliefs, fears, and hopes.

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Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World
by Margaret J. Wheatley

"A book like Leadership and the New Science only comes along once in a decade. Margaret Wheatley pushes our thinking about people and organizations to a new dimension. You will never think about organizational life in the same way again."
--Ken Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager, Raving Fans, and Empowerment Takes More than a Minute

"If there's a single book that sets the stage for the future of organizations, this is it.... Wheatley makes complex ideas simple, and then shows how those simple ideas can be used as powerful tools."
--Stephen E. Ewing, President and CEO, Michigan Consolidated Gas Company

"An extraordinary book. The new physics is opening frontiers of knowledge that are among the most significant of this century. Applying these discoveries to management and leadership is extraordinarily eye-opening."
--Marjorie Kelly, Founder and Publisher, Business Ethics magazine

Since its initial publication in 1992, Leadership and the New Science has received acclaim for its pioneering look at how new discoveries in quantum physics, chaos theory, and biology can revitalize organizational thinking. In this long-awaited second edition, Margaret Wheatley brings together the fruits of seven years of experience applying these extraordinary ideas to diverse organizations around the world. Updated and expanded, this program cuts to the heart of the real problems and real solutions of anyone wishing for more meaning, potential, and creativity in his or her workplace and life.

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A Simpler Way
by Margaret J. Wheatley, Myron Kellner-Rogers

Strikingly different from most business books--it opens and closes with a pair of very powerful black-and-white photo essays, for example--A Simpler Way lays out a fascinating and productive reexamination of the traditional tenets of organizational behavior. Internationally known consultants Margaret J. Wheatley (Leadership and the New Science) and Myron Kellner-Rogers focus on the basic themes of play, organization, self, emergence, and notions of coherence to explore how people really systemize their existence. The authors draw upon science, poetry, philosophy, and other unconventional corporate resources to suggest a completely original method of working together. "There is a simpler way to organize human endeavor," they write. "It requires a new way of being in the world. It requires being in the world without fear. Being in the world with play and creativity. Seeking after what's possible. Being willing to learn and to be surprised."

If you care about authentic change and want your faith in human systems affirmed, drop everything and read this book.
--Peter Block, author of Stewardship and The Empowered Manager

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