TY - BOOK AU - Hock,Dee ED - VISA International. TI - Birth of the chaordic age SN - 0585299226 AV - HG1643.H63 A3 1999eb U1 - 332.1/78 21 PY - 1999/// CY - San Francisco, CA PB - Berrett-Koehler Publishers KW - Hock, Dee, KW - VISA International KW - History KW - fast KW - Businessmen KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Bank credit cards KW - Finance KW - hilcc KW - Business & Economics KW - Banking KW - Electronic books KW - Biographies N1 - Includes index; 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 N2 - "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 UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=41335 ER -