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Productive Workplaces Revisited

Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century

By: Marvin R. Weisbord

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Productive Workplaces Revisited

Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century

By: Marvin R. Weisbord

In Productive Workplaces Revisited, Marvin Weisbord takes the next step in exploring effective strategies for improving workplace productivity through dignity, meaning, and community. Remarkably, in this new edition the author revisits the case studies from the first edition, Productive Workplaces, to show the long-term effects of OD interventions -- twenty-plus years after the fact and provides invaluable insights for practitioner and student alike. In five new chapters, Weisbord reinterprets his systems work in health care and steel-making, describes how “future search,” his method for “getting everybody improving whole systems,” has crossed cultures on five continents, and summarizes his learning from following up cases decades later. This edition also presents in-depth case studies of organizations that have used these techniques to increase output, cut costs, create strategic plans, manage conflict between functions, and more.

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0787973297

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Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!

Ten Principles for Leading Meetings That Matter

By: Marvin R Weisbord,Sandra Janoff

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Ten Principles for Leading Meetings That Matter

By: Marvin R Weisbord,Sandra Janoff

This practical guide details ten key principles that will profoundly change the way you think about, organize, and lead the meetings that matter most. Rather than trying to change anyone's behavior, Weisbord and Janoff show you how to change the conditions under which people interact. By doing less, you help others do more. With examples from around the world, and practical tips and exercises in every chapter, Don't Just Do Something, Stand There! gives you many new techniques for helping people discover common ground, make productive use of dissension, and take responsibility for action.

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1605093165

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Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!

Ten Principles for Leading Meetings That Matter

By: Marvin R. Weisbord,Sandra Janoff

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Ten Principles for Leading Meetings That Matter

By: Marvin R. Weisbord,Sandra Janoff

Weisbord and Janoff offer ten principles that will allow readers to get more done in meetings by doing less. Based on over 30 years of experience and extensive research, they show exactly how to establish a meeting structure that will create conditions for success, efficiency, and productivity.

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Productive Workplaces

Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century

By: Marvin R. Weisbord

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Productive Workplaces

Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century

By: Marvin R. Weisbord

Strategy and Business 2012 Organizational Culture Book of the Year This third edition of the classic resource, Productive Workplaces is smart, well-written and well-researched, thoughtful, somewhat provocative, and a one-of-a-kind review of the integration of economics, technology, and people. It covers such topics as: the work on self as integral to organizational change; the revision of Lewinian concepts for a new era; and the history behind “getting everybody improving whole systems” as a response to fast change and increasing diversity (not the same as using any particular method). The themes, case studies (many revisited), and models are as relevant as ever.

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0470900172

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Productive Workplaces

Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century

By: Marvin R. Weisbord

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Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century

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Lead More, Control Less

8 Advanced Leadership Skills That Overturn Convention

By: Marvin R. Weisbord,Sandra Janoff

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Lead More, Control Less

8 Advanced Leadership Skills That Overturn Convention

By: Marvin R. Weisbord,Sandra Janoff

Unleash Commitment, Initiative, and Innovation In their decades of leading groups all over the world, Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff discovered they could get superior results by creating an unconventional approach to leadership. Leaders still need to get everyone aligned around the same goals. But to maximize energy, creativity, and productivity, they gain more by focusing on structure rather than behavior, enabling people to take responsibility and manage themselves. Lead More, Control Less describes eight essential skills for establishing a culture of autonomy and self-leadership. Using examples and case studies, Weisbord and Janoff describe how leaders can share responsibility, defuse group conflicts, show everyone the big picture, and more. With this approach, leaders truly gain more control by giving it up.

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Productive Workplaces Revisited

Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century

By: Marvin R. Weisbord

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Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century

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Managing Group Process

By: Marvin R. Gottlieb Ph.D.

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Managing Group Process

By: Marvin R. Gottlieb Ph.D.

Aimed at front-line and senior managers faced with ongoing reorganization and an increasingly reluctant workforce, this book examines what it takes to facilitate problem solving, decision-making, and workforce retention and commitment. Gottlieb explains that managers can most effectively facilitate by adopting a hands-on strategy for processes rather than tasks. This book describes the skills and tools needed for leading and managing groups with consistency, commitment, and courage. Six core skills essential to facilitating group processes are presented:^L ^DBL Initiating^L ^DBL Questioning^L ^DBL Active Listening^L ^DBL Responding^L ^DBL Resolving^L ^DBL Closing/Committing^L Gottlieb discusses the most helpful tools a manager can use for facilitation, including planning, organizing, and directing group processes. Ethical guidelines are provided in conjunction with a discussion of the manager's role in the facilitation process.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031305357X

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Successful Organizational Transformation

The Five Critical Elements

By: Marvin Washington

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Successful Organizational Transformation

The Five Critical Elements

By: Marvin Washington

The subject of organizational change is receiving increasing attention. Whether it is re-inventing government, re-engineering corporations, or reforming churches, all kinds of organizations are attempting major transformations. This book will "walk" you through our framework of the five ingredients of transformation: Burning Platform, why should you do anything; Vision, where are you going; Leadership, are you leading the effort, and do you have the skills necessary to lead; Technical Plan, how will you close the gap between the vision and the burning platform; Social Plan, how will you enroll others in the plan. At the end of reading this book, you will understand why change efforts fail, what ingredients are needed to ensure success, and what skills are needed at the organizational, group, and individual level to maximize improvement efforts.

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Business Expert Press

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1606492128

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Future Search

An Action Guide to Finding Common Ground in Organizations and Communities

By: Marvin Weisbord

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Future Search

An Action Guide to Finding Common Ground in Organizations and Communities

By: Marvin Weisbord

When the term ''future search'' appeared in Productive Workplaces (Weisbord, 1987), so many people sparked to it that we decided, after trying fancier names like ''strategic futures conference, '' to retain it. The response to the concept led to Discovering Common Ground (Weisbord et al, 1992), a work that pulled together principles and practices for value-based action planning. The earlier book presented a variety of high participation models and cases, most based on the Emery/Trist Search Conference, including early experiments with future search. In this book we focus on our evolving future search model. Here we go deeply into our sources and rationale, our experiments with tasks and techniques, and examples of how we and many colleagues have employed this model and its variations. We also provide a philosophical rationale for our design and facilitation practices

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Lead More, Control Less

8 Advanced Leadership Skills That Overturn Convention

By: Marvin R. Weisbord,Sandra Janoff

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8 Advanced Leadership Skills That Overturn Convention

By: Marvin R. Weisbord,Sandra Janoff

This book describes eight essential skills for establishing a culture that encourages people to take charge of themselves. Using examples and case studies, leaders learn how they can share responsibility, defuse group conflicts, enable everyone to get the big picture, and more.

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1626564132

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Future Search

Getting the Whole System in the Room for Vision, Commitment, and Action

By: Marvin Weisbord,Sandra Janoff

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Future Search

Getting the Whole System in the Room for Vision, Commitment, and Action

By: Marvin Weisbord,Sandra Janoff

NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Future Search is among the best-established and most effective methods for enabling people to make and implement ambitious plans. It has been used to redesign IKEA’s product pipeline in Sweden, develop an integrated economic development plan in Northern Ireland, and demobilize child soldiers in Southern Sudan. Written by the originators, this book is the most up-to-date account of this powerful change method. This third edition is completely revised, reorganized, and updated with nine new chapters. It contains new cases and examples, advice on combining Future Search with other methods, and a summary of formal research studies. The chapters on facilitating diversity provide a theory, philosophy, and method for working with any task group. Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff offer specific guidance for Future Search sponsors, steering committees, participants, and facilitators and new ideas for sustaining action after the Future Search ends. They’ve added striking evidence of Future Search’s efficacy over time, examples of its economic benefits, guidelines for making Future Searches green, and much more. They include a wealth of resources—handouts, sample client workbooks, follow-up methods, and other practical tools. If you want to do strategic planning, product innovation, quality improvement, organi-zational restructuring, mergers, or any other major change requiring stakeholder en-gagement, this book is your guide.

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Lead More, Control Less

8 Advanced Leadership Skills That Overturn Convention (16pt Large Print Edition)

By: Marvin Weisbord,Sandra Janoff

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8 Advanced Leadership Skills That Overturn Convention (16pt Large Print Edition)

By: Marvin Weisbord,Sandra Janoff

Unleash Commitment, Initiative, and Innovation. In their decades of leading groups all over the world, Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff discovered they could get superior results by creating an unconventional approach to leadership. Leaders still need to get everyone aligned around the same goals. But to maximize energy, creativity, and product...

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Future Search

An Action Guide to Finding Common Ground in Organizations and Communities

By: Marvin Ross Weisbord,Marvin Weisbord,Sandra Janoff

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Future Search

An Action Guide to Finding Common Ground in Organizations and Communities

By: Marvin Ross Weisbord,Marvin Weisbord,Sandra Janoff

This text explores a new way for organizations and communities to apply global thinking and democratic values to achieve rapid whole systems improvement.

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An Action Guide to Finding Common Ground in Organizations and Communities

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An Action Guide to Finding Common Ground in Organizations and Communities

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Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!

Ten Principles for Leading Meetings That Matter (16pt Large Print Edition)

By: Marvin Weisbord,Sandra Janoff

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Productive Workplaces Revisited

Productive Workplaces Revisited

Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!

Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!

Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!

Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!

Productive Workplaces

Productive Workplaces

Productive Workplaces

Productive Workplaces

Lead More, Control Less

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Productive Workplaces Revisited

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Lead More, Control Less

Future Search

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Lead More, Control Less

Lead More, Control Less

Future Search

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Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!

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