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Editorial Reviews
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Birth of the Chaordic Age is a compelling manifesto for the future, embedded within the intriguing story of a personal odyssey. An engaging narrator, Dee Hock is the man who first conceived of a global system for the electronic exchange of value, becoming the founder and CEO of VISA International. He looks critically at today's environment of command-and-control institutions and sees organizations that are falling apart, failing to achieve their own purposes let alone addressing the diversity and complexity of society as a whole. The solution, Hock claims, lies in transforming our notion of organization; in embracing the belief that the chaos of competition and the order of cooperation can and do coexist, succeed, even thrive; and in welcoming in the chaordic age.
The underlying tenets of Hock's ideas are well illustrated by the incredible story of the birth of VISA International, an organization formed on chaordic principles that now links in excess of 20,000 financial institutions, 14 million merchants, and 600 million consumers in 220 countries. Hock deplores an age where ingenuity and effort are wasted on circumventing the rules and regulations of insular, hierarchical bureaucracies. In a bold-type subtext interspersed throughout the book, he examines how this situation is stunting our potential as individuals and communities and contemplates what can be changed. This rumination is propelled onward by "Old Monkey Mind" (Hock's own thoughts). Though the technique allows the reader to engage in stimulating mental discovery along with the author, its New Age spiritual tone is sometimes a bit saccharine. His insights, however, are clear and provocative. In the Chaordic Age, he contends, "success will depend less on rote and more on reason; less on the authority of the few and more on the judgment of many; less on compulsion and more on motivation; less on external control of people and more on internal discipline." Hear, hear. --S. Ketchum
From AudioFile
In a powerful memoir, a maverick manager tells how he overcame banking's rigid lending culture to create the electronic payment system we now know as VISA. His strategies for building trailblazing teams are illustrated by fascinating stories, all laced with insights that make the lessons vivid and understandable. The title suggests a broad, abstract agenda for the program--a history of how command and control organizations change into the organic systems required by today's non-linear organizations, organizations he calls "chaordic." But the program is more about the author's journey than the management transformation. It's a riveting story, read with profound understanding by one of today's best voices, a story of a well-lived life at the center of an important societal revolution. T.W. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
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我对这本书的语言风格感到非常震撼,它不是那种华丽堆砌辞藻的文字,而是一种近乎残酷的精确和冷静。作者对词汇的选择极其克制,但每一个词语都像经过精密计算的激光束,直击要害。特别是当描写到人物的内心挣扎时,那种没有情绪渲染,纯粹的白描,反而产生了一种更具穿透力的情感冲击力。我常常需要停下来,反复咀嚼某一个句子的构造,体会那种结构上的张力。书中对环境的描绘也十分独特,那些城市景观、荒芜的郊外,都不是简单的背景板,它们似乎拥有自己的生命和意志,与人物的命运产生了某种宿命般的共振。这种文学上的“硬度”,使得阅读过程成了一种体力活,需要高度的精神集中。它拒绝取悦读者,更像是在进行一场严肃的智力对话,探讨的是关于存在、结构和非理性力量的本质问题。读完之后,留下的不是情节的记忆,而是一种挥之不去的、关于世界运作方式的全新认知框架。
评分这部作品的叙事结构简直像一个迷宫,作者似乎故意将时间线打得七零八落,让你时而置身于宏大的历史背景下,时而又被拉进某个微不足道的角色内心深处的独白里。读起来,感觉就像是在看一部超现实主义的电影,画面感极强,但逻辑的连贯性却需要读者自己去拼凑。我尤其欣赏其中对于“边缘状态”的描绘,那种介于秩序与混乱之间的微妙平衡,被刻画得入木三分。书中的每一个场景都充满了象征意义,即便是最日常的对话,也似乎蕴含着某种哲学思辨的暗流。举个例子,某个角色对一只受伤飞蛾的细致观察,竟然可以延伸到对整个社会系统性失灵的深刻批判,这种多层次的解读空间,让这本书的重读价值飙升。当然,这种非线性叙事对于追求快速反馈的读者来说,可能会有些吃力,需要极大的耐心去适应作者构建的这种独特的节奏感和疏离感。但一旦你沉浸进去,那种被挑战和探索的感觉是无与伦比的,它不提供明确的答案,而是迫使你成为解读过程的一部分。
评分我必须承认,这本书对读者的知识背景有一定的要求,它大量引用了一些晦涩的理论概念和历史典故,如果不去查阅,很多深层的意图就会被忽略掉。但这并不是负担,反而变成了一种探索的动力。它不是那种读完就丢的书,而是那种你会忍不住在书页间夹上笔记,反复翻阅的参考资料。作者在构建这个世界时所下的功夫是惊人的,每一个设定的背后似乎都有一个严密的理论支撑体系,哪怕这个体系是完全虚构的。比如书中对某种新型社会结构的描述,它引用了大量的社会学和控制论的术语,使得这种虚构的架构具有了一种令人信服的“技术真实感”。总而言之,它挑战了我们对叙事边界的传统认知,它更像是一部哲学论文与社会学观察报告的混合体,包裹在文学的外衣下,为那些渴望深度、不惧怕复杂性的读者,提供了一场真正意义上的智力冒险。
评分这本书在人物塑造上的手法非常高明,它几乎回避了传统意义上的“好人”与“坏人”的标签化处理。每一个角色都像是一个复杂的生态系统,内部充满了矛盾和未被消化的历史包袱。你很难用简单的道德标准去衡量他们,他们会在下一秒做出完全违背前一秒决定的事情,但这恰恰是真实人性的体现,不是吗?作者似乎对“动机”本身不感兴趣,他更关注的是行为产生的结果,以及这些结果如何像涟漪一样扩散开来,最终影响到更宏大系统的运转。我特别喜欢那些次要角色的处理方式,他们寥寥数语,却能勾勒出一个完整的世界观碎片,那种毫不费力的深度,是很多主角都达不到的。这种群像式的刻画,营造出一种广阔而冷漠的社会图景,让人感觉自己就像一个漂浮在其中的观察者,既参与其中,又被系统性地排斥在外,体会着一种深刻的疏离感和局外人的清醒。
评分这本书的节奏控制堪称一绝,它不像传统小说那样有明确的“高潮”和“低谷”。相反,它维持着一种持续的、低频的、但令人不安的张力。有的章节读起来像是一场漫长的、没有尽头的等待,充满了未被满足的期待感;而另一些章节,信息密度又突然暴增,让你感觉仿佛在一瞬间被塞入了过多的知识和意象,需要立即停下来消化。这种节奏的忽快忽慢,并非随性而为,而是服务于主题的:生活本身就是由这种无序的、非均匀的体验构成的。它教会我,重要的不是事件本身,而是事件发生时,你所处的“间隙”——那些呼吸与呼吸之间,行动与行动之间的空白地带。这种对时间流逝的非传统处理,让读者真正体会到,世界是如何在不动声色中缓慢崩塌或重建的。它不是讲故事,它是在编织一种体验。
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