Finding Our Way

The collection of practical, hard-hitting articles in Finding Our Way draws on renowned author and business speaker Margaret Wheatley's work around the world and applies the revolutionary ideas in her ground-breaking books Leadership and the New Science, A Simpler Way and Turning to One Another.The articles support the practices of people and leaders in many different types of organizations, communities and cultures, with topics ranging from leadership to parenting to specific organizational techniques ."Margaret Wheatley pushes our thinking aobut people and oganizations to a new dimension. You will never think about organizational life in the same way again." (Ken Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager)

Margaret Wheatley is president emerita of The Berkana Institute and an internationally acclaimed speaker and writer. She has been an organizational consultant and researcher since 1973, and has been Associate Professor of Management at the Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University, and Cambridge College, Massachusetts. She is the author of the bestselling Leadership and the New and Turning to One Another and coauthor of A Simpler Way.

Opening
Ancient Thera, Modern Teacher

Organizing: There is a Simpler Way
The New Story is Ours to Tell
The Irresistible Future of Organizing
The Promise and Paradox of Community
Relying on Human Goodness
The Best in Art and Life

Leadership: We Make the Road by Walking
Goodbye, Command and Control
Relying on Everyone's Creativity
Bringing Life to Organizational Change
Working with Life’s Dynamics in School Systems
When Change is Out of Our Control
Leadership in Turbulent Times Is Spiritual
The True Professional

Obstacles: Where the Road Gets Hard
The Real Work of Knowledge Management
The Uses and Abuses of Measurement
Name, Connect, Nourish, Illuminate
Transforming Aggression into Creativity
Seven Hundred Years to Go

Personal: Attending to Our Footsteps
Living Our Interconnectedness
Willing to be Disturbed
Reclaiming Time to Think
Listening
Raising Our Children
Ending Our Silence
Everything Has a Deep Dream

My Own Footsteps
Consumed by Either Fire or Fire
Maybe You Will Be the Ones
America’s Dark Night
Beyond Hope or Fear
Dreaming World
A Parting Blessing

Notes
Where These Essays Were First Published
Bibliography
Permissions and Photo Credits
Index
About the Author