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Birth of the Chaordic Age

Birth of the Chaordic Age



Author: Dee W. Hock
Edition: 1st Edition/ 1st Priniting
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1576750744
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Birth of the Chaordic Age



In Birth of the Chaordic Age, Dee Hock argues that traditional organizational forms can no longer work because organizations have become too complex.Birth of the Chaordic Age review. Hock advocates a new organizational form that he calls "chaordic, " or simultaneously chaotic and orderly. He credits the worldwide success of VISA with its chaordic structure -- it is owned by its member banks which both compete with each other for customers and must cooperate by honoring one another's transactions across borders and currencies. The book shows how these same chaordic concepts are now being put into practice in a broad range of business, social, community, and government organizations.
Birth of the Chaordic Age is a compelling manifesto for the future, embedded within the intriguing story of a personal odysseyRead full reviews of Birth of the Chaordic Age, 9781576750742.

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Birth of the Chaordic Age
By Dee Hock
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Copyright 1999Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
FIRST EDITION
345 pagesHardcover
Measures 9 1/2" X 6 1/2"
Cover and dust jacket show light wear
No markings within the text
Pages are crisp and clean
Corners have minor rubbing
*Included a letter from the author
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"In Birth of the Chaordic Age, VISA founder Dee Hock argues that traditional organizational forms can no longer work because organizations have become too complex. Hock advocates a new organizational form that he calls "chaordic"-simultaneously chaotic and orderly. He credits the worldwide success of VISA to its chaordic structure; It is owned by its member banks, which both comnpete with each other for customers and cooperate by honoring one another's transactions across borders and currencies. This audioboo

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Hock explains a new organizational form he calls "chaordic, " meaning both chaotic and orderly. Citing the example of VISA--where member banks compete for customers while honoring one another's transactions--Hock shows how the structure is being put into practice in a broad range of businesses and other organizations. Abridged.

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Hock explains a new organizational form he calls "chaordic, " meaning both chaotic and orderly. Citing the example of VISA--where member banks compete for customers while honoring one another's transactions--Hock shows how the structure is being put into practice in a broad range of businesses and other organizations. Abridged.



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Hock advocates a new organizational form that he calls "chaordic, " or simultaneously chaotic and orderly. He credits the worldwide success of VISA with its chaordic structure -- it is owned by its member banks which both compete with each other for customers and must cooperate by honoring one another's transactions across borders and currencies. The book shows how these same chaordic concepts are now being put into practice in a broad range of business, social, community, and government organizations.
Birth of the Chaordic Age is a compelling manifesto for the future, embedded within the intriguing story of a personal odyssey. An engaging narrator, Dee Hock is the man who first conceived of a global system for the electronic exchange of value, becoming the founder and CEO of VISA International. He looks critically at today's environment of command-and-control institutions and sees organizations that are falling apart, failing to achieve their own purposes let alone addressing the diversity and complexity of society as a whole. The solution, Hock claims, lies in transforming our notion of organization; in embracing the belief that the chaos of competition and the order of cooperation can and do coexist, succeed, even thrive; and in welcoming in the chaordic age.

The underlying tenets of Hock's ideas are well illustrated by the incredible story of the birth of VISA International, an organization formed on chaordic principles that now links in excess of 20,000 financial institutions, 14 million merchants, and 600 million consumers in 220 countries. Hock deplores an age where ingenuity and effort are wasted on circumventing the rules and regulations of insular, hierarchical bureaucracies. In a bold-type subtext interspersed throughout the book, he examines how this situation is stunting our potential as individuals and communities and contemplates what can be changed. This rumination is propelled onward by "Old Monkey Mind" (Hock's own thoughts). Though the technique allows the reader to engage in stimulating mental discovery along with the author, its New Age spiritual tone is sometimes a bit saccharine. His insights, however, are clear and provocative. In the Chaordic Age, he contends, "success will depend less on rote and more on reason; less on the authority of the few and more on the judgment of many; less on compulsion and more on motivation; less on external control of people and more on internal discipline." Hear, hear. --S. Ketchum

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