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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
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HOW AI FITS WITH OD

Grounded in social constructionist theory, in new discoveries in the sciences about how the world works, in the nature and power of the human brain, and in the power of a positive mindset to create our most desired future, AI challenges us to experience reality differently. Such explorations lead us to realize that organizations are human systems more like the human body than like a mechanical machine.
This is not a casual or incremental notion of change in our understanding of human systems and how they work. This is a significant shift in the very “bedrock” beliefs imbedded in Western cultures about how human systems are structured and how they behave. This is a shift from the divisive notion that there is a right way ...
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