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Several years ago, in the face of irreversible global problems and the devolution of leadership, Margaret Wheatley began to challenge every leader she met with these questions: Who do you choose to be as a leader for this time? Are you willing to use whatever power and influence you have to create islands of sanity that evoke and rely on our best human qualities in order to create, relate, and persevere? Will you consciously and bravely choose to reclaim leadership as a noble profession that creates possibility and humaneness in the midst of increasing fear and turmoil? This book is the result of that effort. Wheatley focuses on eight dynamics common to all living systems. For each dynamic, she details what recent research teaches about it and how it can be applied to society today, illuminating the causes of many of our most troubling and perplexing behaviors and providing examples from her own personal recollections about leaders who have used the dynamics in healthy and life-affirmi ng ways.