Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World

In this book, Margaret J. Wheatley pulls from quantum physics, chaos theory, and molecular biology to identify ways that organizations, including schools, can improve. When applied to school leadership structures, these concepts support the idea of teacher-powered schools.

Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World, by Margaret J. Wheatley, has the following description at Amazon.com:

This book launched a revolution by demonstrating that ideas drawn from quantum physics, chaos theory, and molecular biology can improve organizational performance. The author calls for organizations that allow for free-flowing information, individual empowerment, relationship networks, and organizational change that evolves organically — ideas that have become commonplace in teacher-powered schools.

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