Who Do We Choose to Be?, Second Edition

Bestselling author Margaret Wheatley issues the call for leaders to restore sanity in an insane time and become the presence of insight and compassion in the face of chaos. This book offers a path for leaders to engage well and wisely with the destructive dynamics of this time. Deepening the insights in her classic book, Using a combination of commentary, practices, quotes, and stories, Wheatley addresses questions like, what is good leadership in this crazed, conflicted world? What skills and sensitivities do leaders need in order to serve well this time? How do we lead as an Island of Sanity, creating the conditions for people to be generous, creative, and kind? Three new chapters provide richer and deeper insight for informing our choices as leaders and citizens. The first two explain why uncertainty, confusion and conflicts can only increase, touching on topics like the weaponization of information and the loss of a shared reality as we retreat to our own bubbles. The last offers practices for leaders willing to become what she calls Warriors for the Human Spirit: decent human beings serving an indecent, inhumane time.

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Margaret J. Wheatley has been a consultant and speaker since 1973 and has worked with almost all types of organizations and people. She is the cofounder and president emerita of the Berkana Institute, a global nonprofit founded in 1991. She has served as full-time graduate management faculty at two institutions, Cambridge College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University. She is the author of nine books.

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"BESTSELLING BOOK: More than 30,000 copies sold of First Edition. MORE TIMELY EVERY YEAR: As people become more deeply divided around the world, lose faith in institutions, and grow in confusion, anger, and despair, the messages of this book are increasingly relevant, needed, and powerful. A GUIDE FOR LEADERS IN ALL KINDS OF ORGANIZATIONS-helping them choose a role of meaning and service in a rapidly darkening time. EVERY CHAPTER IS UPDATED. The core messages remain the same, but new perspectives and timely new information are included throughout the Second Edition. THREE NEW CHAPTERS: "Whatever Happened to Reality?"; "The Weaponizing of Information"; "Choosing a Path of Service and Meaning.""--

Résumé
In a world we cannot recognize, how do we find a way forward? In this world we do not understand, how do we know what to do? When so little is comprehensible, what is meaningful work? What is genuine contribution?

Bestselling author Margaret Wheatley has summoned us to be courageous leaders who strengthen community and rely on fully engaged people since her 1992 classic book, Leadership and the New Science, and eight subsequent books. In response to how quickly society is changing and the exponential increase in leadership challenges, this second edition of her latest bestseller is 80% new material.

How do we see clearly so that we can act wisely? Wheatley brings present reality into clear and troubling focus using multiple lenses of Western and Indigenous sciences, and the historic patterns of collapse in complex civilizations. With gentle but insistent guidance to face reality, she offers us the path and practices to be sane leaders who know how to evoke people’s inherent generosity, creativity, and kindness.

Skillfully weaving science, history, exemplars, poetry, and quotes with stories and practices, Wheatley asks us to be Warriors for the Human Spirit, leaders and citizens who stay engaged, choose service over self, stand steadfast in the midst of crises, and offer our reliable presence of compassion and insight no matter what.