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Practicing Organization Development: A Guide for Leading Change: A Third Edition
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Practicing Organization Development: A Guide for Leading Change: A Third Edition

by William J. Rothwell, Jacqueline M. Stavros, Roland L. Sullivan, Arielle Sullivan
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
704 pages
21h 9m
English
Pfeiffer
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HSD COMPETENCIES—A SHORT LIST OF SIMPLE RULES

Complex adaptive systems cannot be predicted or controlled. Agents, their complex interactions, and the openness of the system create an unpredictable future for individual or collective patterns of behavior. To be effective in such an emergent ecology, HSD practitioners see what is happening in the self-organizing systems around them, understand the implications of those patterns, generate options for action, and take action to influence those patterns as they emerge. The HSD Institute (www.hsdinstitute.org) supports practitioners as they support their clients. The competencies of an HSD professional are incorporated into a short list of simple rules. These rules function as guidance for action ...
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