Member Publications
Member Publications
The Handbook of Organization
Development and Change
Edited by Michael Brazzel and Brenda B. Jones
ISBN: 9780787977733
This book provides an essential learning tool for both practitioners and students and presents the skills and competencies of an effective OD practitioner. It examines OD as both field and profession, and considers its history, values and ethics, and provides best practices, theories, methods, processes, and applications—contributed by a veritable “who’s who” of contributors.
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Appreciative Intelligence: Seeing the Mighty Oak in the Acorn (Harvard Business Review 2006 Reading List)
By Tojo Thatchenkery and Carol Metzker
ISBN: 1576753530
Appreciative intelligence® provides a new answer to what enables successful people to dream up their extraordinary and innovative ideas; why employees, partners, colleagues, investors, and other stakeholders join them on the path to their goals, and how they achieve these goals despite obstacles and challenges. It is not simple optimism. People with appreciative intelligence are realistic and action-oriented—they have the ability to not just identify positive potential but to devise a course of action to take advantage of it.
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Triple Impact Coaching
By Beverley Patwell and Edith Whitfield Seashore
ISBN: 0-9650430-1-0
Triple Impact Coaching is a cascading or layered approach of coaching from you, the coach, to your clients, and from your clients to the people they work with resulting in benefits for the individual, team and organization. The coaching process begins with understanding your own Use-of-Self as a coach and learning how to be more intentional with your choices to obtain the impact that you need and desire.
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By Barbara Benedict Bunker and Billie T. Alban
ISBN: 978-0-7879-8143-3
Large Group Interventions are methods used to gather a whole system together to discuss and take action on the target agenda. That agenda varies from future plans, products, and services, to redesigning work, to discussion of troubling issues and problems. The Handbook of Large Group Methods takes the next step in demonstrating through a series of cases how Large Group Methods are currently being ....
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By Edward Lawler and Christopher Worley
ISBN: 978-0-7879-8061-0
In this groundbreaking book, organizational effectiveness experts Edward Lawler and Christopher Worley show how organizations can be “built to change” so they can last and succeed in today’s global economy. Instead of striving to create a highly reliable Swiss watch that consistently produces the same behavior, they argue organizations need to be designed in ways that stimulate and facilitate chan....
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Covert Processes at Work : Managing the Five Hidden Dimensions of Organizational Change
By Robert J. Marshak with Forward by Ed Schein
ISBN: 1576754154
•The first book to offer an integrated approach for recognizing and dealing with the hidden processes that sabotage organizational change efforts •Identifies five different dimensions of these covert processes •Offers a comprehensive approach that can be used to address any type of covert process “As a large-scale change consultant who ha....
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Repairing the Quilt of Humanity
By Deborah Howard
ISBN: 0931761123
The quilt of humanity is in a tattered state, says Deborah Howard, a New York City organization development and diversity consultant. We suffer too much as a result of racism, oppression, and the various ways that power and privilege affect us. Drawing on her own cultural background, she employs the Jewish concept of tikkun olam-healing and repairing the world-to present a provocat....
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By Rene Carew
ISBN: 1592572979
Find your true career calling! Finding the perfect career isn"t easy, but it is achievable. The Complete Idiot"s Guide to Discovering Your Perfect Careeroffers you the chance to trade in your current, less-than-satisfying job for the fulfilling career you were meant to have. Through a process of personality self assessment, temperament, talents, values, interests, and goals, you will ....
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By Glenn P. Allen-Meyer
ISBN: 0967507901
This book explodes the assumptions behind currently accepted methods of organizational change by demonstrating the power and pervasiveness of the marketing paradigm in the field of organization development and change. Any time a leader or change agent feels like a "salesperson" of change, she or he has felt the pull of the marketing paradigm. This book offers a new appr....
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By John Eckland and David Kiel
ISBN: 0-07-141039-2
Challenge: The following material is taken directly from the dust jacket of If Your Life Were A Business, Would You Invest In It? "Of course you would invest in your life if it were a business, but HOW would you invest? At the time when many of us are rethinking what is truly important in our lives, this completely pr....
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By Joseph Luft
ISBN: 0874845424
Group Process, now in its third edition, explores basic issues and dilemmas fundamental to all groups, such as leadership, communication, group effectiveness, and conflict. Joseph Luft brings together current development in group theory and practice and guides the reader through experience-based learning, sometimes called the laboratory approach to group dyna....
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Appreciative Sharing of Knowledge: Leveraging Knowledge Management for Strategic Change
By Tojo Thatchenkery
ISBN: 0-7880-21-37-0
True knowledge sharing in organizations occurs less regularly than most of us think. What can be done to help create a system in which people share the internal "know-how" unique to each organization? In this contribution to change management, Tojo Thatchenkery describes a brand new methodology called Appreciate Sharing of Knowledge [ASK] and provides a step-by-step tool kit ....
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By Tom Finn
ISBN: 978-0-9797245-0-3
“A Bank for White People”, “A Restaurant for Men,” “Oh, My God, You’re a Completely Different Person” – three of many bizarre, real-life stories of lost profits and stymied employees due to cultural cluelessness. Easy-to-read short stories and 7 Clues – Are You Clueless? is a how-to for leaders for increasing business and motivating their workforce through diversity.
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Beyond Bullsh*t: Straight Talk at Work
By Samuel A. Culbert
ISBN: 0804758859
Straight-talk at work! Grumblings in offices everywhere suggest that there is not much that we crave more, but don’t get often enough. Beyond Bullsh*t reveals the dynamics of bullsh*t and why it has become the corporate etiquette of choice. It also explains how telling it straight contributes to personal well-being and business success.
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Consulting Psychology: Selected Articles by Harry Levinson
Edited by Arthur M. Freedman, MBA, PhD and Kenneth H. Bradt, PhD
ISBN: 1-4338-0376-3
For over 50 years, Harry Levinson, a pioneer in the field of organizational consulting psychology, has applied his extensive clinical expertise to the understanding of organizational assessment and intervention. In this volume, the editors present 18 of Levinson's landmark contributions that explore how and why consultants diagnose organizational and managerial pathology.
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Promise of Diversity
Edited by Elsie Y. Cross, Judith H. Katz,
Frederick A. Miller, and Edith W. Seashore
ISBN: 0786303077
Workplace diversity is one of the most critical issues facing organizations today. The Promise of Diversity is a contemporary future-focused business anthology that helps readers understand and address the often controversial, always complex, issues surrounding diversity, discrimination and change management. Over 40 articles offering each author’s voice and style, this - collection is itself a Iiving example of diversity and is destined to become a classic reference in its field.
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Organizational Change: Views from the Edge
By Robert J. Marshak
$37.00
This outstanding collection of twenty-seven essays provides both scholarly and practitioner perspectives on the subject of organizational change. Written by consultant and thought leader Bob Marshak, the book provides an unusual look at the development of his ideas over a twenty-five year period. Included are classic discussions about the impact of language and metaphors on organizational change; the theory, practice, and challenges facing the field of Organization Development; and comparisons of traditional East Asian change concepts with Western models.The book will be of special value to students, scholar-practitioners and practitioner-scholars interested in organization development and organizational discourse.
By Michael J. Marquardt, Ed.D.; H. Skipton Leonard, Ph.D.; Arthur M. Freedman, Ph.D.; and Claudia C. Hill
ISBN: 978-1-4338-0435-9
Today’s rapidly changing and globally competitive business environment mandates that 21st century leaders develop new models and innovative learning processing of organizational leadership. To meet these shifting needs, Action Learning has emerged as a key training and problem-solving tool for companies as diverse as Microsoft, Kaiser-Permanente, Nokia, Samsung, Boeing, GE, Motorola, Marriott, General Motors, Deutsche Bank, McKay Foundation, and British Airlines. These and hundreds of other organizations around the world now employ Action Learning for strategic planning to develop future leaders, identify competitive advantages, reduce operating costs, and create high-performing teams.
Action Learning is a dynamic process that involves a small team of diverse members solving real organizational problems while, simultaneously, focusing on how their learning can benefit individuals, groups, and organizations. The emphasis on inquiry, reflection, and learning makes this process strategic rather than tactical in equipping leaders to effectively respond to unprecedented, discontinuous change.
This book demonstrates how Action Learning can quickly and effectively be introduced, implemented and sustained in any type or size of organization in virtually any cultural context using six key components: a team of four to eight diverse members; an urgent task or problem; an inquiry-driven process for exchanging information; implementation of action strategies; a commitment to learning; and an Action Learning Team Coach. It features useful case examples that illustrate the power of Action Learning in successfully solving problems, developing leaders, building teams, and transforming organizations. The book illustrates how skilled coaching and question-based dialog make Action Learning a powerful tool in leadership and organization development initiatives.
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