Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time

Margaret J. Wheatley brings together her shorter writings for the first time in this collection. Throughout her career, she has written about humanizing organizations and helping people work together more effectively and compassionately. Her work demonstrates how insights from chaos theory and quantum physics can help organizations function as responsive, self-organizing living systems rather than rigid mechanisms of control. Wheatley has expanded these ideas into broader discussions of human society. Finding Our Way covers the range of topics she has addressed throughout her career—leadership, management, education, raising children in uncertain times, societal commentary, and organizational techniques. She has updated, revised, or substantially added to each piece, so the collection represents her current views on these subjects. The book presents her thinking on how to lead and operate effectively within systems that are alive and dynamic, offering perspectives that are at times challenging and poetic.