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"Wave Rider" is about leveraging the power of self-organization for high performance in all sizes and types of organizations. Owen shows that self-organization is the most powerful force in organizations, but a force that is often muffled by well-meaning yet constricting management.

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What began forty years ago as a journey of exploration into the interplay between chaos, order, and the creative process culminates in this capstone work of Harrison Owen's pioneering career. From the creator of Open Space Technology (OST), Wave Rider shows how to apply the fundamental principles of OST to the day-to-day management and leadership of organizations. Owen lays out eight concrete steps for aligning ourselves with the driving power behind OST's immense success: the primal force of self-organization. We can't control it, but we can work with it--we can ride the wave.

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  • Title Wave Rider: Leadership for High Performance in a Self-Organizing World
  • Author Harrison Owen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers
  • Publication date 2008-10
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781576756171 / 1576756173
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.94 x 6.12 x 0.74 in (22.71 x 15.54 x 1.88 cm)
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Library of Congress subjects Management, Leadership
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008025598
  • Dewey Decimal Code 658.409

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2009, Page 115

About the author

Harrison Owen is president of H. H. Owen and Company. His aca- demic background and training centered on the nature and function of myth, ritual, and culture. In the mid-1960s, he left academe to work with a variety of organizations, including small West African villages, urban community organizations (both in the United States and in Africa), the Peace Corps, regional medical programs, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and the U. S. Veterans Administration. Along the way, he discovered that his study of myth, ritual, and culture had direct application to these social systems. In 1977, he created H. H. Owen and Company in order to explore the culture of organizations in transfor- mation as a theorist and practicing consultant. Harrison convened the First International Symposium on Organization Transformation and is the originator of Open Space Technology. He is the author of Open Space Technology: The Users Guide; Spirit: Transformation and Development in Organiza- tion; Leadership Is; Riding the Tiger; The Millennium Organization; Tales from Open Space; and Expanding Our Now: The Story of Open Space Technology.
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