Action Inquiry The Secret Of Timely And Transforming Leadership

Author : William R. Torbert
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 157675264X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Action Inquiry written by William R. Torbert and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2004-06-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: oAction inquiryo is a fresh approach to learning leadership in the midst of action. This highly accessible process takes each of us beyond muddling through daily dilemmas to exercising transforming power at key moments and more timely action in general. Bill Torbert and Associates lead you through more and more sophisticated oaction-logicso-strategies for analyzing the world and reacting to it-until you are able to practice action inquiry continually. Speaking to everyone from new managers to CEOs to world leaders, real-life stories of leadership and organizational transformations show how action inquiry increases personal integrity, relational mutuality, company profitability, and long-term organizational and environmental sustainability.

Author : William Torbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780369323736
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Action Inquiry written by William Torbert and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Action inquiry'' is the process of transformational learning that individuals (and even whole organizations) can undertake to better assess current dangers and opportunities, act in a timely manner, and make future visions come true. Through short stories of leadership and organizational changes in the areas of business, politics, health care, and education, this book illustrates how this process can increase personal integrity, improve relationships, and lead to company profitability and long - term success.

Author : Dalmar Fisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780953818402
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personal and Organisational Transformations written by Dalmar Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Svoboda
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101622644
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Makes a Hero? written by Elizabeth Svoboda and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining investigation into the biology and psychology of why we sacrifice for other people Researchers are now applying the lens of science to study heroism for the first time. How do biology, upbringing, and outside influences intersect to produce altruistic and heroic behavior? And how can we encourage this behavior in corporations, classrooms, and individuals? Using dozens of fascinating real-life examples, Elizabeth Svoboda explains how our genes compel us to do good for others, how going through suffering is linked to altruism, and how acting heroic can greatly improve your mental health. She also reveals the concrete things we can do to encourage our most heroic selves to step forward. It’s a common misconception that heroes are heroic just because they’re innately predisposed to be that way. Svoboda shows why it’s not simply a matter of biological hardwiring and how anyone can be a hero if they're committed to developing their heroic potential.

Author : Ken Jennings
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1609942884
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greater Goal written by Ken Jennings and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling coauthor of The Serving Leader (over 90,000 copies sold) provides a roadmap that all leaders can use to create and align entire organizations around an inspiring purpose that drives superior performance.

Author : William B. Joiner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0787979139
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leadership Agility written by William B. Joiner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-10-20 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership Agility is the master competency needed for sustained success in today’s complex, fast-paced business environment. Richly illustrated with stories based on original research and decades of work with clients, this groundbreaking book identifies five levels that leaders move through in developing their agility. Significantly, only 10% have mastered the level of agility needed for consistent effectiveness in our turbulent era of global competition. Written in an engaging, down-to-earth style, this book not only provides a map that guides readers in identifying their current level of agility. It also provides practical advice and concrete examples that show managers and leadership development professionals how they can bring greater agility to the initiatives they take every day.

Author : William R. Torbert
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780803940673
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Balance written by William R. Torbert and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1991-03-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a new theory of power, a new practice of management and a new theory of social science, this volume contradicts the following received wisdoms: that `all power corrupts'; that all organizational structure constrains; and that social science is `purer' the more it is divorced from action. Torbert presents a conceptualization of power that generates productivity, justice and inquiry; develops a theory of `liberating structure' through which organizations can generate continual quality improvement; and introduces a new paradigm of engaged social science - `action inquiry'.

Author : William R Torbert
Publisher : Waterside Productions
ISBN 13 : 9781951805418
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Numbskull in the Theatre of Inquiry written by William R Torbert and published by Waterside Productions. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned senior member of the adult development, leadership, and organization transformation fields, award-winning researcher, consultant, and teacher, Bill Torbert offers us this final and signature book -- an anti-heroic memoir named Numbskull that shares his dramatic early life in Spain, Austria, Italy, and Somalia, then at Yale, the Southern Methodist University Business School, and the Harvard Ed School, culminating with the creation of The Theatre of Inquiry. He recounts for us how he gradually learned, from the experiences of his own leadership efforts, a theory of learning from experience. From his experiences, he also learned a theory of organizational transformation, culminating in 'liberating disciplines' that help others learn transformationally from their own experiences. And, last but not least, he formulated a developmental theory of social science that culminates in the paradigm of Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry (CDAI). CDAI interweaves first-, second-, and third-person research and practice, as Numbskull illustrates by surrounding Bill's first-person memoir with an introduction, a postscript, and endnotes in the second-person voices of his action inquiry colleagues, as well as appendixes in the third-person voice. Torbert received his BA and PhD from Yale, played leadership roles at Yale Upward Bound and The Theatre of Inquiry, later served as Graduate Dean at Boston College (where the MBA rose from below the top 100 to the top 25 during his tenure) and as Director of the PhD program in Organizational Transformation. He consulted and served as a board member at dozens of companies, and is the author of a dozen books including the award-winning Managing the Corporate Dream, award-finalist The Power of Balance: Transforming Self, Society, and Scientific Inquiry, and Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership, translated into Chinese, Russian, and Japanese. Of his nearly 100 journal articles and book chapters, the best-known is his 2005 international-award-winning, Harvard Business Review article "Seven Transformations of Leadership" (co-authored with David Rooke). Partnering first with Susann Cook-Greuter and later with Elaine Herdman-Barker, he has transformed the Washington University Sentence Completion Test into the leadership development psychometric named the Global Leadership Profile. He currently serves as a founding board member of both Global Leadership Associates and Amara Collaboration and is a leadership professor emeritus at Boston College. In recent years, he has received a number of recognitions for his life work, including the Ulmer Applied Research Award from the Center for Creative Leadership in 2013 and the Argyris Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Management in 2014.

Author : Gunnlaugson, Olen
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466647949
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Theory U: Insights from the Field written by Gunnlaugson, Olen and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book brings together an existing array of research on Theory U, including specific aspects of the theory, through diverse interpretations and contexts while exploring key theoretical concepts and outlining current approaches and blind spots"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Jon R. Katzenbach
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1633691071
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wisdom of Teams written by Jon R. Katzenbach and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive classic on high-performance teams The Wisdom of Teams is the definitive work on how to create high-performance teams in any organization. Having sold nearly a half million copies and been translated into more than fifteen languages, the authors’ clarion call that teams should be the basic unit of organization for most businesses has permanently shaped the way companies reach the highest levels of performance. Using engaging case studies and testimonials from both successful and failed teams—ranging from Fortune 500 companies to the U.S. Army to high school sports—the authors explain the dynamics of teams both in great detail and with a broad view. Their conclusions and prescriptions span the familiar to the counterintuitive: • Commitment to performance goals and common purpose is more important to team success than team building. • Opportunities for teams exist in all parts of the organization. • Real teams are the most successful spearheads of change at all levels. • Working in teams naturally integrates performance and learning. • Team “endings” can be as important to manage as team “beginnings.” Wisdom lies in recognizing a team’s unique potential to deliver results and in understanding its many benefits—development of individual members, team accomplishments, and stronger companywide performance. Katzenbach and Smith’s comprehensive classic is the essential guide to unlocking the potential of teams in your organization.