Birth of the chaordic age / Dee Hock.
Material type: TextPublication details: San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, �1999.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (x, 345 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0585299226
- 9780585299228
- 1583764860
- 9781583764862
- 332.1/78 21
- HG1643.H63 A3 1999eb
Includes index.
"The worldwide success of VISA International, Dee Hock asserts, is due to its chaordic structure: it is owned by 22,000 member banks, which both compete with each other for 750 million customers and must cooperate by honoring one another's $1.25 trillion in transactions annually across borders and currencies. Birth of the Chaordic Age is the story of how that structure came into being."--Jacket.
In search of a more liveable world -- On the nature and creation of chaordic organizations -- Old monkey mind -- A lamb and the lion of life -- The bloodied sheep -- Retirement on the job -- Ordinary people, extraordinary things -- The house of cards -- Nothing to lose -- The impossible imagined -- The next to the last word -- The corporation or the cane? -- And then there was one -- Quite ordinary people -- The victim of success -- The golden links -- What's in a name? -- The process opens -- The jeweled bearing -- The odyssey -- Then providence moved too -- What can you do -- About the chaordic alliance -- A sample of chaordic alliance participation in the creation of new chaordic organizations.
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English.
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