Birth of the Chaordic Age Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc ( January, 2000 ) Book Our Price : £ 14.18 List Price : £ 15.76 You save £1.58 (10% off) Prices subject to change. usually dispatched within 24 hours.

An affirmation of a paradigm shift in philosophical thinging

Nelson Mandelas statue on the South Bank has a quote form him as follows - "The Struggle Is My Life". Dee Hock lived a fulfilling life of struggle in engaging co-operation from numerous disparate banking organisations to form an organisation that does not exist in the usual sense. Visa is a Chaordic organisation. It is based on a fundamental philosophical understanding of the mathematical science of Chaos Theory or as Waldrup calls it Complexity. A huge proportion of us go off to work or are serviced by bureaucractic organisations which are hierarchical downward coercive power driven historical anomolies. What does this millenia hold for use - bureaucratic anarchy or as Dee Hock describes the Chaordic organisation. There are two levels: There is the fascinating business operatic tale of the development of VISA. Then there is Old Monkey Mind - putting VISA and Dees perspective into a world changing, developing and equitably harmonious possibility Will Birth of the Chaordic Age become real in our life time. With the fluttering of many individual butterflies wings of chaos theory experincing Nelson Mandellas the struggle is my life it could be. It could be if you read the book and live your version of the Chaordic Age.