Hock, Dee,  1929- <br/><br/>
Birth of the chaordic age / 
Dee Hock. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - San Francisco, CA :  Berrett-Koehler Publishers,  �1999. 
 - 1 online resource (x, 345 pages) 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><br/>English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0585299226 9780585299228 1583764860 9781583764862 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>99044779  
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GB99-W3517 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Hock, Dee, 1929- <br/>Hock, Dee, 1929- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>VISA International--History.<br/>VISA International.<br/>VISA International.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Businessmen--United States--Biography.<br/>Bank credit cards--History.<br/>Bank credit cards.<br/>Businessmen.<br/>Finance.<br/>Business & Economics.<br/>Banking.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Biographies.<br/>History.<br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HG1643.H63  / A3 1999eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>332.1/78