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Self-Organizational Model of Leadership in Practice -- 'It's a Good Thing'
Selfishness within organizations is much derided, given the common emphasis on community in business life. 'Teamwork' is buzzword of management gurus and corporate retreat organizers alike, and who would say he or she is not a team player, even if he or she is desiring promotion to a leadership position? However, self-organization theory "suggests that the evolution of the universe adheres to self-organizational principles," in other words, because even basic biological molecules may attempt to create both more of themselves (as leaders) and through doing so create more complex molecules (such as corporate empires), therefore...
By succeeding and branding themselves as success stories of self-empowerment, they have used the self-organizational model of leadership to make their names emblems of success that can be sold to others. Martha Stewart attempted to sell herself as a brand name of gracious living and…
Works Cited
Kauffman, S. (1995). At home in the universe: The search for laws of self-organization and complexity. New York: Oxford University Press. Retrievable on the web at http://www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/1999/AutopoiesisPaper.htm
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