| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (x, 345 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
"The worldwide success of VISA International, Dee Hock asserts, is due to its chaordic structure: it is owned by 22,000 member banks, which both compete with each other for 750 million customers and must cooperate by honoring one another's $1.25 trillion in transactions annually across borders and currencies. Birth of the Chaordic Age is the story of how that structure came into being."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
In search of a more liveable world -- On the nature and creation of chaordic organizations -- Old monkey mind -- A lamb and the lion of life -- The bloodied sheep -- Retirement on the job -- Ordinary people, extraordinary things -- The house of cards -- Nothing to lose -- The impossible imagined -- The next to the last word -- The corporation or the cane? -- And then there was one -- Quite ordinary people -- The victim of success -- The golden links -- What's in a name? -- The process opens -- The jeweled bearing -- The odyssey -- Then providence moved too -- What can you do -- About the chaordic alliance -- A sample of chaordic alliance participation in the creation of new chaordic organizations. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hock, Dee, 1929-
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Hock, Dee, 1929- |
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VISA International -- History.
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VISA International. |
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History. |
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Hock, Dee. |
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VISA International. |
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Businessmen -- United States -- Biography.
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Businessmen. |
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United States. |
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Bank credit cards -- History.
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Bank credit cards. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Added Author |
VISA International.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hock, Dee, 1929- Birth of the chaordic age. 1st ed. San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ©1999 1576750744 (DLC) 99044779 (OCoLC)42135682 |
| ISBN |
0585299226 (electronic book) |
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9780585299228 (electronic book) |
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