| Description |
1 online resource (x, 345 pages) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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Includes index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Hock, Dee, 1929-
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| SUBJECT |
Hock, Dee, 1929- fast |
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VISA International -- History
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VISA International fast |
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Businessmen -- United States -- Biography
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Bank credit cards -- History
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Bank credit cards
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Businessmen
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United States
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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History
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
VISA International.
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| ISBN |
0585299226 |
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9780585299228 |
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1583764860 |
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9781583764862 |
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