Another of the new sciences is the new organizational science. A leader in her field, Margaret Wheatley wrote Leadership and the New Science, first published in 1992, with new editions in 1999 and 2006. She described organizations as living organisms, naturally self-organizing and continually seeking greater levels of complexity and diversity. The organization is alive when its community is alive and vibrant. Just as Bruce Lipton, in Biology of Belief, pointed out that the brain of the cell is actually in the membrane, so the outer edge of each community is its place of growth. Each community member is a change agent, a growth agent, for bringing in new food and new vitality to keep the organization alive and vibrant. Wheatley explains how the world, physical and beyond, naturally organizes itself into beautiful patterns and structures as it constantly changes. Continuing her research of organized communities, in Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now (2011), Wheatley describes seven different communities where their shift in belief resolved seemingly unsolvable challenges with practical solutions.
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