1st Edition

Organizations Connected A Handbook of Systemic Consultation

Edited By David Campbell, Clare Huffington Copyright 2008
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book shows the underlying thinking of experienced consultants deciding how to position themselves in organizations, seeking to enable organizational change to occur and redefining their relationships with their clients over time and according to organizational need using a systemic lens.

    Series Editors’ Foreword -- Introduction -- The system in the room: the extent to which coaching can change the organization -- The collapsed-chair consultation: making moments of significance work -- Leadership development and “close learning”: reducing the transfer gap -- Locating conflict in team consultations -- The power of keeping it simple -- Surviving the task of management -- Asymmetric leadership: supporting a CEO’s response to turbulence -- Democratizing strategy: towards distributed leadership -- Coaching lawyers to lead -- Final thoughts

    Biography

    David Campbell, Clare Huffington