Leading thinkers from a range of disciplines such as organizational behavior, management, psychology, and anthropology explore the importance of continuity to organizational health and offer insights into how organizations can change while preserving the traditions that make them what they are. Case studies and research reveal the organizational structures, systems, and attitudes that foster a sense of continuity.

Executive and Organizational Continuity: Managing the Paradoxes of Stability and Change

Business & Money

Srivastva, Suresh

Management & Leadership

Jossey-Bass

Explores the importance of continuity to organizational health and offers insights into how organizations can change while preserving the traditions that make them what they are.

Executive and Organizational Continuity: Managing the Paradoxes of Stability and Change (Jossey-Bass Management Series)

Fry, Ronald E.

Proquest/Csa Journal Div

Throughout history, humankind has progressed in a somewhat predictable manner. Leaders have been able to leverage the accumulated knowledge residing within the world's organizations to presage tomorrow's demands and make their decisions accordingly. But there are times that defy such extrapolations, and ours seems to be one of them. Faced with a veritable maelstrom of technological innovation and ensuing social upheaval, today's organizational leaders must be risk takers, basing their decisions for the future not on the existing bodies of concrete information, but on an invaluable reserve of organizational wisdom and executive courage. The contributors to this book explore the roles wisdom and courage play in shaping our organizational lives and the implications they hold for the advancement of organizational science and practice. Filled with new thought and compelling insights, Organizational Wisdom and Executive Courage offers executives, educators, and scholars alike the means to broaden their thinking about change and management.

Organizational Wisdom and Executive Courage

Cooperrider, David L.

Economics

Jason Aronson, Inc.

The organization development community is on the precipice of a revolution -- a revolution of positive change. Instead of looking at organizations as problems to be solved, Appreciative Inquiry (AI) looks to an organization as a mystery to be solved; instead of identifying problems, AI seeks to appreciate and value. AI is an attempt to generate a collective image of a new and better future by exploring the best of what is and has been. Generally speaking, AI is a strategy for intentional change that looks specifically at positive aspects of a situation. Its methods focus is not on what is wrong, or what needs to change, but rather encourages change agents to look at what works well or what is good in a workplace situation. Once evaluators understand what works well or what is good, then it's about tracking these positives and looking for ways to amplify or fan them in an effort to find avenues to develop more of these positive factors.

Appreciative Inquiry: A New Story of Positive Change for Business and World Benefit (The Appreciative Inquiry Positive Change Series)

Pfeiffer

PrefaceThe Authors Introduction: Common Themes in Executive Thought and Action Part One: Processes of Envisioning 1. The Artform of Leadership(Warren Bennis) 2. Productive and Counterproductive Reasoning Processes(Chris Argyris) 3. The Mind of the Strategist(s)(Henry Mintsberg, James A. Waters) Part Two: Processes of Experiencing and Sense-Making 4. Cultivating Timely Executive Action(William R. Torbert) 5. Problem Management: Learning from Experience(David A. Kolb) 6. Stakeholders of Executive Decision Making(Ian I. Mitroff, Richard O. Mason) 7. Union of Rationality and Intuition in Management Action(Louis R. Pondy) Part Three: Processes of Knowing and Enacting 8. Patterns of Individual and Organizational Learning(Frank Friedlander) 9. Managerial Thought in the Context of Action(Karl E. Weick) 10. Searching for Essence in Executive Experience(Fred Massarik) Part Four: Processes for Developing the Executive Mind 11. Strengthening Management Education(Ronald E. Fry, William A. Pasmore) 12. Improving Executive Functioning (Suresh Srivastva)

The Executive Mind: New Insights on Managerial Thought and Action

Examines the sources of power in organizations, including the power of formal authority and the power that comes from personal knowledge, skills, and vision. Discusses the functions and limitations of executive power, how power is shared in groups, and how it is affected by political factors. Describes the skills executives use to gain authority when operating outside formal organizations.

Executive Power: How Executives Influence People and Organizations (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

Shows that executive integrity is not merely a moral trait but a dynamic process of making empathetic, responsible, and sound decisions. Describes key features of executive integrity including effective social interaction, open dialogue, and responsive leadershipand explains how integrity can be developed and practiced in today's organizations.

Executive Integrity: The Search for High Human Values in Organizational Life (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

Processes & Infrastructure

Shows how executives can introduce, nurture, and develop high human values in organizational life. Explores modes of thought and processes of leadership that stimulate cooperation and enhance creativity in working toward a common organizational future. Proposes a new, positive perspective to guide executive thought and action.

Appreciative Management and Leadership: The Power of Positive Thought and Action in Organizations (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

Executive and Organizational Continuity: Managing the Paradoxes of Stability and Change (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

Organizations in the twenty-first century will look very different from those we know today. Faced with an environment of unpredictable demands and a workforce of great cultural and ethnic diversity, organizations will have to find new ways to engage their members in a spirit of common purpose. 
This book offers a new perspective on organizational management that will enable executives to unlock an organization's potential for creativity, innovation, and collaboration. In sixteen original essays the authors demonstrate how appreciation - the act of recognizing and valuing all kinds of diversity, whether cultural, ethnic, or simply different and unusual styles of management - is the key to forging unity and purpose among individuals in an organization. They show, for example, how consensus and cooperation grow from members' understanding that their personal integrity and abilities are valued and will be integrated into the organization's culture. They describe the specific communication practices that can be used to forge a common sense of purpose from conflicting points of view and different personal goals. And theey identify the special personal and leadership skills needed to cultivate an environment where managers work with and build on differences, rather than den! ying their expression.

Appreciative Management and Leadership: The Power of Positive Thought and Action in Organization (Revised Edition, 1999)

Lakeshore Communications

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