Leadership in Chaordic Organizations

Foreword

For this book, Beverly Gay McCarter and Brian E. White have gathered, organized, and interpreted an immense amount of information. They bring together the thinking from chaos and complexity theory, psychology, neuro-linguistic programming, and neuroscience, helping readers better understand the nature and challenges of leadership and improving their effectiveness in a dynamic, rapidly changing, and interconnected world.

Organizations are collections of self-organizing people talking, interacting, and bumping into each other as they try to make a living and assist the organization in fulfilling the needs of its stakeholders. The people are autonomous to various degrees, behaving in complex ways. They are a whole system of complex, dynamical ...