Terry Wykowski's Books

From Belief to Knowledge

Achieving and Sustaining an Adaptive Culture in Organizations

By: Neil Douglas,Terry Wykowski

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From Belief to Knowledge

Achieving and Sustaining an Adaptive Culture in Organizations

By: Neil Douglas,Terry Wykowski

Belief is not knowledge, but we tend to hold our beliefs as if they represent knowledge, selecting whatever evidence is required to justify them. And because humans tend to cling to their beliefs as truths, organizations often ignore the need for change, no matter how urgent that need. From Belief to Knowledge: Achieving and Sustaining an Adaptive Culture in Organizations offers potential change agents an integrative analysis and treatment of the problem of organizational learning. It demonstrates the importance of looking beneath beliefs and assumptions to find the roots and persistent influences that preserve them. It gives us a much broader definition of organizational knowledge than that associated with information technology and the currently popular idea of knowledge as an asset. Furthermore, it provides an alternative view of culture and change, one that is defined by the ability to continually align collective beliefs with reality. "Douglas and Wykowski...answer the question that lingers in the minds of many managers – What does organizational learning mean and how does it influence ongoing organizational success?" – Lee Newick, Shell Downstream Rather than offer simple recipes, this book shows how good leaders can evolve and sustain an adaptive culture that develops knowledge through purposeful human interaction. It explores key dynamics of learning, considers the diversity of beliefs present in any group, and demonstrates ways that those leaders can explore and encourage the potential of both the group and individuals within the group. "Although this book is geared to organizational change, it has the potential to change all areas of human endeavor." – David Julian Hodges, City University of New York

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1439885176

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Beyond Reductionism

Gateways for Learning and Change

By: Terry Wykowski,Neil Douglas

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Beyond Reductionism

Gateways for Learning and Change

By: Terry Wykowski,Neil Douglas

Beyond Reductionism: Gateways for Learning and Change takes a critical look at organizational learning and change management from a leadership perspective in late 20th century organizations. The authors argue that the dynamics that restrain the efforts of leaders transcend personal attributes and leadership styles. They are rooted in the nature of work and institutions and the histories and cultures of the organizations themselves. Often seen as the central constraint - and the core limiting factor in organizational effectiveness and learning - reductionism is defined as over-simplification and a failure to comprehend the nature of life in organizations by concentrating too fully on discrete and disconnected aspects of reality. The other constraints of hierarchy and institutional knowledge are activated and driven by reductionism. After reading Beyond Reductionism: Gateways for Learning and Change leaders at all organizational levels will understand why low levels of organizational learning persists and change efforts fail. They will also be equipped to recognize and reject overly simplistic and superficial interventions, helping them to create non-reductionist strategies for creating and sustaining change. Actual project designs, experiences, techniques and results are described in the book within an overall framework that emphasizes the roles and interconnectedness of individuals, leaders, and groups, all operating within the overlay of culture.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351464264

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Rethinking Management

Confronting the Roots and Consequences of Current Theory and Practice

By: Neil Douglas,Terry Wykowski

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Rethinking Management

Confronting the Roots and Consequences of Current Theory and Practice

By: Neil Douglas,Terry Wykowski

This book challenges the roots and elements of the existing dominant paradigm of management, which can legitimize artless practices and result in dysfunction, and proposes an alternative based on a different understanding of human nature and social and economic life. This paradigm is designed to bring about the conception of organizations as wholes rather than assemblies of disembodied fragments, with managers as facilitators of the work of others and shapers of culture, with a clear sense of purpose and a moral compass. Such a paradigm would result in a practice of management that is more competent, more purposeful, and more ethical, based on a more accurate and complete comprehension of reality. This book sets forth a more optimistic understanding of human nature and collective life, and the hope that we can be and do better. It is a major contribution to the field of management and will benefit academics, managers, and consultants working in the fields of organizational development and strategic change.

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Confronting the Roots and Consequences of Current Theory and Practice

By: Neil Douglas,Terry Wykowski

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Confronting the Roots and Consequences of Current Theory and Practice

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From Belief to Knowledge

Achieving and Sustaining an Adaptive Culture in Organizations

By: Neil Douglas,Terry Wykowski

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Achieving and Sustaining an Adaptive Culture in Organizations

By: Neil Douglas,Terry Wykowski

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Beyond Reductionism

Gateways for Learning and Change

By: Terry Wykowski,Neil Douglas

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Gateways for Learning and Change

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From Belief to Knowledge

From Belief to Knowledge

Beyond Reductionism

Beyond Reductionism

Rethinking Management

Rethinking Management

Rethinking Management

Rethinking Management

From Belief to Knowledge

From Belief to Knowledge

Beyond Reductionism

Beyond Reductionism

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