Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business - Softcover

"Great storytelling, experience-based insight, and effortless prose."
--Christopher Meyer, Director, The Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation, and coauthor of BLUR: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy and Future Wealth

"Surfing the Edge of Chaos is a breakthrough book . . . rendering subtle and complex ideas into readable prose by refracting the ideas through the prism of real-life organizations. This book will be must reading for any serious executive or student of organizational change."
--Warren Bennis, University Professor and Founding Chairman of the Leadership Institute, University of Southern California, and author of Managing the Dream

"Surfing the Edge of Chaos is an action plan for bringing organizations to life and life to organizations."
--Prof. Gary Hamel, author of Leading the Revolution and coauthor of Competing for the Future; Visiting Professor, London Business School; and Chairman of Strategos

"Grounded in both theory and practice, Surfing the Edge of Chaos helps any manager facing change to replace equilibrium and the status quo with innovation and self-renewal. The links drawn between the world of nature and the world of business form a particularly rich source of ideas for turning complexity and chaos into resolve and results."
--Dave Ulrich, Professor of Business, University of Michigan, and author of Results-Based Leadership

The co-author of The Art of Japanese Management presents a powerful and practical study that examines why business management is marked by a continual battle between the preserving forces of tradition and those of transforming change, and argues that a company should be viewed as a living system rather than as a machine. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.