Birth of the Chaordic Age
Product DescriptionIn Birth of the Chaordic Age, Dee Hock argues that traditional organizational forms can no longer work because organizations have become too complex. Hock advocates a new organizational form that he calls “chaordic,” or simultaneously chaotic and orderly. He credits the worldwide success of VISA to its chaordic structure: It is owned by its member banks, which both compete with each other for customers and cooperate by honoring one another’s transactions across bord… More >> Birth of the Chaordic Age
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Comment from Jerry A. Moles
Time April 20, 2010 at 10:04 pm
not much to say other than the service was prompt and the book arrived in excellent condition.
Rating: 5 / 5
Comment from Global Home
Time April 21, 2010 at 1:01 am
Here at Global Home we may not understand all that Dee Hocksays but we sure are on the same wavelength. What Dee Hock imparts is what we at GlobalHome, in our own way, are looking to coax into being.
This is a review of the book that a friend of ours wrote…
Rating: 5 / 5
Comment from Michael
Time April 21, 2010 at 3:24 am
The underlying science used to rationalize the voracity of ‘chaordic’ organizational archictures is missed completely. Chaordic is a poor buzzword. A HOLONIC approach to the balancing act between hierarchy and heterarchy as well as self-organization and autocatalytic evolution is most appropriate. Do a web search if you want more on holonics. The reulting science of such behavior was 1st published by Auther Koestler in his landmark book “The Ghost In The Machine” (c)1967. Appendix 1 of this work is something that would serve to cleanse this authors apparent lack of scientific prowess. This author says it all and I quote; “I do not believe that VISA is a model to emulate.” pp282. It is obvious that the success of VISA and therefore this book are suspect and miss the mark. It is amazing that the Chaordic Alliance was ever funded. The book is close, but no Cigar!! One star gives credit to the sis-boom-bah rhetoric that this book is peppered with. This author doesn’t have the slightest clue in the world that all he has done is to put old wine in new bottles. The wine in his new bottle is now vinegar! I doubt he knows it.
Rating: 1 / 5
Comment from Lloyd P. Wells
Time April 21, 2010 at 5:31 am
The Birth of the Chaordic Age is the most exciting and hope filled secular book I’ve read in my 80 years of political life.
Rating: 5 / 5
Comment from Carlos Aldan A.
Time April 20, 2010 at 7:54 pm
I cannot review this book which I purchased simply because even though my credit card has been debited I have not received the merchandise of my last and first shipment. I have been repeatedly trying to tell you are using the wrong postal address but cannot seem to get through. You are so automated but took no provision for cases like this one.
Hellooooooooooooo!
Rating: 1 / 5