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We've compiled a list of books that we think you'll find useful. For your reading enjoyment we selected the very best books in this category.

Complexity and Creativity in Organizations, by Ralph D. Stacey Complexity and Creativity in Organizations is the most comprehensive and thorough book yet written on how the new science of complexity can be applied to organizations. In it, Ralph Stacey invites you to explore how this new science might provide us with more useful frameworks for making sense of life in organizations than the approaches that currently dominate our thinking. Amazon.com's price: $24.47

The Intelligence Advantage : Organizing for Complexity, by Michael D. McMaster Order form The Intelligence Advantage provides a new understanding of the way that human beings create organizations. Ideas recently made available through advances in philosophy, science, technology and communication are investigated. These advances foster insight into ways of organizing productive activity that are consistent with the nature of human beings and society. Complexity is becoming a common word in business literature. Our price: $17.95

The Knowledge Evolution : Expanding Organizational Intelligence , by Verna Allee The Knowledge Evolution offers a unique and powerful road map for understanding knowledge creation, learning, and performance in everyday work. Packed with the best practices from leading edge companies, essential guidelines, design principles, analogies, and conceptual frameworks, The Knowledge Evolution serves as a practical guidebook for mastering "the knowledge era". Highly recommended reading for anyone charged with managerial responsibilities and successfully competing in the business climates of the 21st century. Amazon.com's price: $14.36

Leadership and the New Science : Learning About Organization from an Orderly Universe, by Margaret J. Wheatley Margaret Wheatley shows how the "New Science"-the revolutionary discoveries in quantum physics, chaos theory, and biology that are overturning centuries-old models of science-provides powerful insights for transforming how we design, lead, and manage organizations. Amazon.com's price: $12.76

Managing the Unknowable : Strategic Boundaries Between Order and Chaos in Organizations , by Ralph D. Stacey Stacey shows executives and managers how powerful strategic planning is based on uncovering and directing the complex, often chaotic interactions that take place daily within companies. He explains how chaos can inspire creativity and describes the vital roles contradiction and conflict play in developing strategy. He offers guidance in building the skills required to handle unknowable futures, including advice on establishing self-organizing teams, encouraging multiple cultures, and improving group learning skills. Amazon.com's price: $29.95

Rewiring the Corporate Brain : Using the New Science to Rethink How We Structure and Lead Organizations, by Danah Zohar Quantum Leadership seminar creator and author Danah Zohar offers a new conceptual structure and practical implementation ideas for transforming corporate thinking and leadership to fully utilize corporate brain capacity. Amazon.com's price: $19.57

A Simpler Way, by Margaret J. Wheatley, Myron Kellner-Rogers Using the language of the new sciences, the authors explain how a simpler way can be applied to organizations through play, the emergence of new structures, and the idea of "coherence." When the world is seen in a simpler way, they say, we can move with more assurance, the world supports our efforts and we can create, experiment, organize, fail, accomplish, play, learn and create again. Amazon.com's price: $19.57

The Unshackled Organization : Facing the Challenge of Unpredictability Through Spontaneous Reorganization, by Jeffrey Goldstein Through change comes hope for improvement. Using leading-edge scientific and social theories about change, Goldstein explores how change happens within an organization and reveals that only through "self-organization" can natural, lasting change occur. This book is a pragmatic guide for managers, executives, consultants, and other change agents. Amazon.com's price: $25.00

Other titles

Rethinking the Future : Rethinking Business, Principles, Competition, Control & Complexity, Leadership, Markets and the World, by Rowan Gibson

The Strategic Heart : Using the New Science to Lead Growing Organizations, by Michael H. Shenkman

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