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Title: Birth of the Chaordic Age by Dee W. Hock ISBN: 1-57675-074-4 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (20 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A Solid Effort!
Comment: Dee Hock interweaves his experiences growing up and founding VISA with his thoughts about how to address the decline of community and of modern institutions. He perceives a general breakdown in the social order, fueled by an overemphasis on monetary values and greed, and perpetuated by institutions committed to old methods derived from ideas about machines and structure rooted in the Industrial Revolution. Now, businesses need a more dynamic, flexible organizational structure based on a clear sense of "purpose". This purpose should be rooted in contributing to the community. It must be based on ethical principles and values. This process involves developing "chaordic organizations," those which balance chaos and order. Hock uses examples from his life and from the development of VISA to show how this process works.
This is an excellent, thoughtful book. Hock's fascinating story about founding VISA provides a good context for his meditations about the modern need to develop more chaordic, flexible organizations. At times though, his writing can become somewhat ponderous and wordy, particularly when he tries to express fairly complex or abstract ideas.
Rating: 5
Summary: A book that will change our world. A must read!!!!
Comment: Sorry, but is not a another book on how to make more money in business. This book is a must read for all. It changed my life. Dee Hock is a true visionary and leader for the new millennium. Certainly everyone who feels that there must be a better way to approach the myriad of problems our world is experiencing will delight at the liberating possibilities that Hock presents here. Please read it and know that there is a path to bring our collective societal behavior into harmony with our values by employing the very organizing principles that are found throughout nature. I deeply thank Dee Hock for having the courage and perseverance it took to bring this message to the world.
Rating: 2
Summary: Stick to the article.
Comment: Like many others, I bought this book because of the outstanding article written about Dee Hock in one of the first issues of "Fast Company." So I waited...and waited...and waited for Hock to come out with this long-planned volume (replete with many publishing delays).
The result. Yeech. I couldn't stomach more than 10 pages or so. In the future, let's keep the writing to others writing *about* Mr. Hock. This book reads like someone who's been cooped up in the study a bit too long. In the original article, there was an exciting thesis about creating organizations in which power was pushed away from the center. And Visa, Hock's brainchild, was a brilliant manifestation of that principle.
But the book is about...ummmm, what? "Old Monkey Mind" musings? Who can follow these meanderings? Readers of the article are bound to be disappointed. At least we get a little insight as to why the author is no longer at Visa. Tough to imagine that a man with this sort of obvious brilliance could function trying to run the nuts-and-bolts of an increasingly static (and less chaordic) organization.
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Title: The Chaordic Organization by Dee Hock ISBN: 1583760954 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc Pub. Date: 18 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Visionary's Handbook: Nine Paradoxes That Will Shape the Future of Your Business by Watts Wacker, Jim Taylor, Howard Means ISBN: 0066619882 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality by Ken Wilber ISBN: 1570628556 Publisher: Shambhala Publications Pub. Date: 16 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: COMPLEXITY: THE EMERGING SCIENCE AT THE EDGE OF ORDER AND CHAOS by M. Mitchell Waldrop ISBN: 0671872346 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 15 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: What We Learned in the Rainforest: Business Lessons from Nature by Tachi Kiuchi, Bill Shireman, William K. Shireman ISBN: 1576751279 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Pub. Date: 09 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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