Book description
“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.Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Praise for Action Inquiry
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION The Promise and the Power of Action Inquiry
- PART ONE Learning Action Inquiry Leadership Skills
- INTERLUDE Action Inquiry: The Idea and the Experience
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PART TWO Transforming Leadership
- FOUR The Opportunist and the Diplomat: Action-logics you probably resort to, but don’t want to be circumscribed by
- FIVE The Expert and the Achiever: The most common managerial action-logics
- SIX The Individualist Action-Logic: Bridge to transforming leadership
- SEVEN The Strategist Action-Logic: Developing transforming power
- PART THREE Transforming Organizations
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PART FOUR The Ultimate Spiritual and Societal Intent of Action Inquiry
- TWELVE The Fresh Action Awareness of Alchemists
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THIRTEEN Creating Foundational Communities of Inquiry
- Joan Bavaria, Trillium Asset Management, and Socially Responsible Investing—An Evolving Foundational Community of Inquiry?
- The United Nations as a Foundational Community of Inquiry?
- Future Possibilities
- A New Organizational Form—The Not-for-Prophet
- Communities of Practice and Communities of Inquiry
- Conclusion
- APPENDIX Concluding Scientific Postscript on Methods of Inquiry
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author and Associates
Product information
- Title: Action Inquiry
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2004
- Publisher(s): Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- ISBN: 9781605096339
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