Written by the founder, president and CEO of Visa International - the largest business enterprise on earth - this is the never-before-told story of how Visa International was conceived and established. It is also the fascinating life story of Dee Hock, a maverick banker who put his own wild ideas into practice to create something the likes of which the world had never seen. But more than that, this is a book of challenging ideas and radical philosophy about the nature of our world, the role of money and organisations in our world, reinventing leadership and management, and transforming business and society.
The central idea of 'Birth Of The Chaordic Age' is that our economic, social and governmental systems are becoming too complex to be effectively served by traditional organisational forms. Instead a new organisational form is coming into being that meets the needs of the next century. Hock calls this new organisational form "chaordic", the seamless and simultaneous blending of chaos and order. Using Visa as a clear example of the magnitude and singularity of institutional change both required and possible in our world, Hock tells a inspirational story for the next century - a story of what we can become.
