{"id":327,"date":"2004-03-22T01:10:49","date_gmt":"2004-03-22T09:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/03\/22\/science-leadership\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:18:36","slug":"science-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/03\/22\/science-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Science &amp; Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A book that had significant influence on my perceptions of reality was required for a graduate management class:  <a href=\"http:\/\/allconsuming.net\/item.cgi?isbn=1576751198\">Leadership and the New Science: Learning About Organization from an Orderly Universe<\/a> by Margaret Wheatley. It utilized the scientific discoveries and concepts of quantum physics, self-organizing systems, and chaos theory and applied them to management &#8212; written in clear, brain-expanding terms. She wrote about how information needs to flow freely, and that what appears chaotic at a micro level really does, on a macro level, have a pattern. We need to learn to see from that perspective. She also spoke of space fields &#8212; space as not being empty, but comprising invisible, non-material structures that are the substance of the universe. I know, it&#8217;s esoteric for 1:09 a.m., but it&#8217;s really cool stuff. Trust me. <\/p>\n<p> From the book:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Self-organizing systems do not simply take in information; they change their environment as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Stasis, balance, equilibrium &#8212; these are temporary states. What endures is process &#8212; dynamic, adaptive, creative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A book that had significant influence on my perceptions of reality was required for a graduate management class: Leadership and the New Science: Learning About Organization from an Orderly Universe by Margaret Wheatley. It utilized the scientific discoveries and concepts of quantum physics, self-organizing systems, and chaos theory and applied them to management &#8212; written [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13018,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/13018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}