Leadership and Science

Paper Summary:

The paper analyzes Margaret J. Wheatley's "Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World", which is a call to organizational leaders and managers to address the needs of their individual employees. The paper looks at the author's background, provides a summary of the book and relates the author's viewpoint and purpose. The paper also examines the author's use of evidence and counter-evidence and discusses how convincing the arguments are. The paper compares this book with other books and articles on this topic and concludes with a final, positive, evaluation of the book.

Outline:
Author's Background
Summary of Book
The Author's Viewpoint and Purpose
Evidence the Author Presents to Support Her Thesis
Author's Use of Evidence and Counter Evidence
The Book's Argument---Convincing or Not
This Book Compared With Other Books and Articles on the Same Subject
Final Evaluation of the Book

From the Paper:

"The book, Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World, demonstrates how the "new Science" discoveries in fields such as biology, quantum physics, and chaos theory are changing society's antiquated views of the universe. As a result, this new science provides model insights into management, design, and leadership of today's organizations (Wheatley, 2001, p. 4). Throughout her book, Wheatley explains how leaders can change the way they lead to create a competitive business that is able to competently compete in an ever changing world. She writes that good leaders can connect individuals to the identity of the corporation so these individuals can then accept responsibility for changing themselves rather than feeling as though change has been imposed from those at the top (Wheatley, 2001, p. 24)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Brown, Juanita, and Isaacs, David, and Senge, Peter, and Wheatley, Margaret J., and World Cafe Community (2005). The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
• Roddy, Nancy (2004). Leadership Capacity Building Model: Developing Tomorrow's Leadership in Science and Technology, An Example in Succession Planning and Management. Public Personnel Management, 33(4), 487-490.
• Sharma, Robin S. (2002). Leadership Wisdom from the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, Inc..
• Soonhee, Kim (2002). Participative Management and Job Satisfaction: Lessons for Management Leadership. Public Administration Review, 62(2), 231-237.
• Wheatley, Margaret J. (2001). Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

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