Birth of the Chaordic AgeThis is the story of how VISA International was conceived, founded and established. It challenges the ideas and radical philosophy about the nature of the world, the role of money and organizations in the world, reinventing leadership and management, and transforming business and society. Written by the founder, president, and CEO emeritus of VISA International, this is the story of how VISA International was conceived, founded and established. It is also the life story of Dee Hock, a maverick banker who put his own wild ideas into practice to create something the likes of which the world had never seen. This text challenges the ideas and radical philosophy about the nature of the world, the role of money and organizations in the world, reinventing leadership and management, and transforming business and society. |
What people are saying - Write a review
LibraryThing Review
User Review - adelmajd - LibraryThingInteresting read. I would need to read the book one more time to digest the concept. I wold agree to agree that current organization have a big problem. I lived it for almost 10 years. I am just not ... Read full review
LibraryThing Review
User Review - Jozzer - LibraryThingDee Hock spend much time contemplating while being in nature, to which he felt strongly connected. Therefor it came as no surprise that he decided to organise his company, VISA International ... Read full review
Contents
In Search of a More Liveable World | 1 |
On the Nature and Creation of Chaordic Organizations | 5 |
Old Monkey Mind | 15 |
A Lamb and the Lion of Life | 31 |
The Bloodied Sheep | 47 |
Retirement on the Job | 63 |
Ordinary People Extraordinary Things | 81 |
The House of Cards | 97 |
Quite Ordinary People | 195 |
The Victim of Success | 215 |
The Golden Links | 231 |
Whats in a Name? | 249 |
The Process Opens | 269 |
The Jeweled Bearing | 285 |
The Odyssey | 303 |
Then Providence Moved Too | 313 |
Nothing to Lose | 113 |
The Impossible Imagined | 127 |
The Next to the Last Word | 145 |
The Corporation or the Cane? | 165 |
And Then There Was One | 179 |
Common terms and phrases
accept agreed answer appeared asked attempt authority Bank of America became become began beginning behavior beliefs building chaordic commitment committee compelled complex concepts continue corporation create decision discussion diverse effect effort emerge existing experience failure four future give hand happen hour human hundred ideas individuals Industrial institutions intense interest internal later laws lead licensee living look matter means meeting merchant mind MiniMaxims move nature never objectives officers Old Monkey organization participants possible present principles problems question realize receive require responsibility result seemed sense shared social society story structure success things thought thousand tion turn understand universe VISA week whole
References to this book
Bibliographic information
| Title | Birth of the Chaordic Age Berrett-koehler Series |
| Author | Dee Hock |
| Contributor | VISA International |
| Publisher | Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1999 |
| ISBN | 1576750744, 9781576750742 |
| Length | 345 pages |
| Subjects | › Business & Economics / Corporate & Business History Business & Economics / Management Science |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |