Terms of Engagement: Changing the Way We Change Organizations
Author: Richard H Axelrod
Terms of Engagement introduces a new method for changing organizations based on four essential principles: Widening the Circle of Involvement, Connecting People to Each Other and Ideas, Creating Communities for Action, and Embracing Democratic Principles. This method enables leaders to create the energetic, flexible, responsive organizations necessary to thrive and prosper in the contemporary business world.
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Presents an alternative to the change management paradigm, offering a practical, principle-based strategy for creating successful change outcomes. Draws on examples of companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Timberland to show how the engagement paradigm enables leaders to create energy and commitment instead of apathy and resistance, and reveals how this system fosters energetic, flexible organizations. The author helped revolutionize the world of organizational change with his development of the Conference Model. He is affiliated with the Association for Quality and Participation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
What People Are Saying
H Murakami
Hideo Murakami, Senior, Vice President, Queen Emma Foundation
Terms of Engagement is an exciting new contribution to the field of organizational change. Axelrod provides leaders with a coherent set of principles for addressing business and social issues instead of tired techniques. Balanced, compelling, smoothly blending theory with practical examples, Terms of Engagement is a must-read.
Barbara Benedict Bunker
T. Alban and Barbara Benedict Bunker, coauthors of Large Group Interventions
Dick Axelrod his given us a mandate for the next millennium: We need to change the way we change organizations. The new 'engagement' paradigm that Dick challenges us to embrace is effectively demonstrated in numerous real life examples. The book is enhanced by guiding principles, graphics, and summaries at the end of each chapter. This is a 'must' book for anyone leading organizational change.
John Nirenberg
John Nirenberg, Ph.D., author of Power Tools: A Leader's Guide to the Latest Management Thinking
Terms of Engagement should once and for all shatter the myth of the 'change master' and show how successful change really occurs—through the active participation of all parties involved. Sounds simple, but American organizations have been failing miserably in their change efforts. With Dick Axelrod's book, organizational leaders can proceed with confidence because he convincingly argues for the adoption of powerful new tools that dramatically increase the chances of success.
Sandra Janoff
Sandra Janoff, Ph.D., coauthor of Future Search, Co-Director, Future Search Network
We know a lot about engaging brains and brawn in the workplace. We are just beginning to understand what it means to engage the whole person--brains, brawn, imagination, spirit, and common sense. Dick Axelrod's personal story and practical insights take us to a deeper place. Thank you for this tremendous contribution.
Margaret Wheatley
Margaret Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science and coauthor of A Simpler Way
Over the years, I've learned a great deal from Dick Axelrod about how to truly engage people in creating real organizational change. I'm so grateful that he has taken the time to convey his experience and wisdom. The learnings in this book are essential for us to understand in these times of relentless change.
Rich Teerlink
Rich Teerlink, former Chairman, Harley Davidson
Axelrod defines four leadership challenges that must be met if an organization is to deal with the dramatic changes that are our ongoing reality: widening the circle of involvement, connecting people to each other and ideas, creating communities for action, and embracing democratic principles. Facing these challenges will require change—a different kind of change. Through real life examples and provocative writing he provides the reader an opportunity to become an active participant in that different kind of change. The change that will energize an organization to new levels of performance and satisfaction.
Jim Maynor
Jim Maynor, President and CEO, The Money Store
Terms of Engagement provides a roadmap for creating meaningful, repeatable and sustainable change. After reading Terms of Engagement and having participated in the conference model, I am convinced that 'real engagement' is the key to unleashing the most powerful resource we have, our fellow employees.
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Reinventing Organization Development: New Approaches to Change in Organizations (Practicing Organization Change and Development Series)
Author: David L Bradford
Praise for Reinventing Organization Development
"A hard hitting yet hopeful look at a field concerned with renewal that is in need of renewal itself. This book is full of intelligent questions, provocative appraisals, and prescriptions for action that they serve."
-Rosabeth Moss Kanter, chaired professor, Harvard Business School; author, Confidence: How'Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End
"Wise, invaluable advice that the field and its practitioners should heed if the field of OD is to take its rightful place as an applied behavioral science that can make a difference in the economic and human affairs of organizations."
-Michael Beer, professor emeritus, Harvard Business School; chairman, Center for Organizational Fitness
"Few disciplines in decline have subjected themselves to so profound a self-evaluation. It should lead ?to a rejuvenation of the field. Whether or not it does, there is a great deal to learn here about organizations and relevant professional practice."
-Russell Ackoff, professor emeritus, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
"Two of the leaders of the field of OD have collaborated to present us with a compelling and controversial state of the art."
-Len Schlesinger, vice chairman and chief operating officer, Limited Brands
"The book challenges OD consultants to think broadly about their organizational roles and to assert their rightful place in organizations."
-Jean M. Bartunek, Robert A. and Evelyn J. Ferris Chair Professor of Organization Studies, Boston College
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