•    A bestseller--more than 300,000 copies sold, translated into seventeen languages, and featured in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Miami Herald, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Fortune

•    Shows how discoveries in quantum physics, biology, and chaos theory enable us to deal successfully with change and uncertainty in our organizations and our lives

•    Includes a new chapter on how the new sciences can help us understand and cope with some of the major social challenges of our times

We live in a time of chaos, rich in potential for new possibilities. A new world is being born. We need new ideas, new ways of seeing, and new relationships to help us now. New science--the new discoveries in biology, chaos theory, and quantum physics that are changing our understanding of how the world works--offers this guidance. It describes a world where chaos is natural, where order exists "for free." It displays the intricate webs of cooperation that connect us. It assures us that life seeks order, but uses messes to get there.

Leadership and the New Science is the bestselling, most acclaimed, and most influential guide to applying the new science to organizations and management. In it, Wheatley describes how the new science radically alters our understanding of the world, and how it can teach us to live and work well together in these chaotic times. It will teach you how to move with greater certainty and easier grace into the new forms of organizations and communities that are taking shape. You'll learn that:

•    Relationships are what matters--even at the subatomic level
•    Life is a vast web of interconnections where cooperation and participation are required
•    Chaos and change are the only route to transformation

In this expanded edition, Wheatley provides examples of how non-linear networks and self-organizing systems are flourishing in the modern world. In the midst of turbulence, Wheatley shows, we create work and lives rich in meaning.

What sets this book apart from similar titles

• Books like The Innovator's Solution; Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth focus on hiring people who have the "right stuff" to deal with disruptive growth.   But Meg Wheatley offers something more: a paradigm shift which will allow ANY leader to learn how to embrace disruptive growth with grace and acumen.  
• Meg Wheatley's book draws wisdom about how to deal with disruptive growth from ground-breaking scientific discoveries about nature. Other famous books on leadership, such as On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis, do mention that leaders must deal with chaos, but they don't address the topic through the lens of chaos theory the way Wheatley does.  
• It is difficult to find other books that hold a candle to this ground-breaking classic on chaos and disruption.