Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time

Covers a wide and diverse scope of topics--leadership, management, education, parenting, social commentary, creativity, spirituality, and more.

By the author of the bestsellers Leadership and the New Science (over 300,000 copies sold) and Turning to One Another, and the coauthor of A Simpler Way

Wheatley is one of the most innovative and influential organizational thinkers of our time, and this is the first collection of her articles and essays--completely revised and rewritten for this volume

For years, Margaret Wheatley has written eloquently about humanizing our organizations and helping people to work together more effectively and compassionately. She has shown how organizations can function more like responsive, self-organizing living systems, rather than cold mechanisms of control. And she has gradually expanded her ideas into the wider arena of human society.

Finding Our Way brings together Margaret Wheatley's shorter writings for the first time. But it is more simply a compendium of previously published material. "The pieces presented here", Dr. Wheatley writes, "represent ten years of work, of how I took the ideas in my books and applied them in practice in many different situations. However, this is not a collection of articles. I updated, revised, or substantially added to the original content of each one. In this way, everything written here represents my current views on the subjects I write about."

Provocative, challenging, at times poetic, often deeply moving, Finding Our Way is a comprehensive summing up of the thought of one of our most original and creative organizational thinkers of our time.

1. By the author of the bestsellers Leadership and the New Science (over 300,000 copies sold) and Turning to One Another, and the coauthor of A Simpler Way
2. Wheatley is one of the most innovative and influential organizational thinkers of our time, and this is the first collection of her articles and essays--completely revised and rewritten for this volume
3. Covers a wide and diverse scope of topics--leadership, management, education, parenting, social commentary, creativity, spirituality, and more

About The Author:

Margaret Wheatley writes, teaches, and speaks about radically new practices and ideas for organizing in chaotic times. She works to create organizations of all types where people are known as the blessing, not the problem. She is president of The Berkana Institute, a charitable global foundation serving life-affirming leaders around the world, and has been an organizational consultant for many years, as well as a professor of management in two graduate programs. Her latest book, Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future proposes that real social change comes from the ageless process of people thinking together in conversation. Wheatley’s work also appears in two award-winning books, Leadership and the New Scienceand A Simpler Way (with Myron Kellner-Rogers) plus several videos and articles. She draws many of her ideas from new science and life’s ability to organize in self-organizing, systemic, and cooperative modes. And, increasingly her models for new organizations are drawn from her understanding of many different cultures and spiritual traditions.