From transformation to transformaCtion : methods and practices / David Gutmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gutmann, David, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology, Industrial.

Management--Psychological aspects.

Management.

Organizational behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxi, 263 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book describes a journey of discovery from transformation to transformaCtion that extends and enhances the life of the organization. The journey occurs on the seas of anxiety and passion, which threaten to sweep an organization towards either paralysis and depression or a hyperlife of perpetual hysterical motion. On this journey, the consultant serves as the chief advisory navigator, helping to guide the ship to circumvent the dangerous rocks as the organization zigs and zags though the waters. While at times the organization may find itself circling in a vortex, trapped in cyclical duplication and potential disappearance, there exists the underlying assurance that transformation is occurring, has occurred, and will continue throughout the journey to transformaCtion. David Gutmann points out that this is a never-ending journey for the organization, even after the work of the consultants has ended.

Contents:

Groups and transformation / David Gutmann ; with Laurence Ponthieu, Jacqueline Ternier-David, and Christophe Verrier

Transformation / David Gutmann ; with Christophe Verrier

Chaos and transformation : the primary scene / David Gutmann ; with Christophe Verrier

The division into us-them as a universal social structure / David Gutmann ; with Miriam Berger and Avi Bergman

The decline of the traditional defences against anxiety / David Gutmann

Between tradition and transformation : existential process and primary task for the life of organizations / David Gutmann ; with Catherine Sandler

Transformation of language and social transformation / David Gutmann ; with Laurence Ponthieu and Christophe Verrier

Power and authority / David Gutmann

The paths of authority : from the unconscious to the transcendental : intervention at the Arab University of Jerusalem, December 1996 / David Gutmann ; with Ronan Pierre, Jacqueline Ternier-David, and C. Verrier

Transformation and collusion : from conforming to forming an alliance / David Gutmann ; with Jacqueline Ternier-David and Christophe Verrier

From envy to desire : witnessing the transformation / David Gutmann ; with Jacqueline Ternier-David and Christophe Verrier

Paradoxes and transformations in the role of consultant : from reparation to revelation / David Gutmann ; with Jacqueline Ternier-David and Christophe Verrier

Consultation and transformation : between shared management and generative leadership / David Gutmann ; with Ronan Pierre

Unconscious and politics : how to explore black and white in colours / David Gutmann ; with Christophe Verrier

Anxiety and passion : about the inescapability of depression / David Gutmann ; with Pascale Ravot-Loucheux.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780429896975

9786612779633

9780429896972

9780429914225

0429914229

9780429899997

0429899998

9780429475221

0429475225

9781282779631

128277963X

9781849408387

1849408386

9781840498387

1840498382

OCLC:

729247038