Action inquiry : the secret of timely and transforming leadership / Bill Torbert ; with Susanne Cook-Greuter ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Torbert, William R., 1944-

Contributor:

Cook-Greuter, Susanne R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Organizational learning.

Active learning.

Experiential learning.

Communication in organizations.

Organizational change.

Physical Description:

x, 248 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Secret of timely and transforming leadership

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler, c2004.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

“Action inquiry” 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 “action-logics”—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.

Contents:

pt. 1. Learning action inquiry leadership skills

pt. 2. Transforming leadership

pt. 3. Transforming organizations

pt. 4. The ultimate spiritual and societal intent of action inquiry.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-235) and index.

ISBN:

9786613268648

9781283268646

1283268647

9781605096339

1605096334

OCLC:

774026549