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Birth of the chaordic age

"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
Print Book, English, ©1999
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco, ©1999
Biography
x, 345 pages ; 24 cm
9781576750742, 1576750744
42135682
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
Includes index