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Action Inquiry : The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership by Bill Torbert, David Rooke and Dalmar Fisher (2004, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherBerrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-10157675264X
ISBN-139781576752647
eBay Product ID (ePID)19038421560
Product Key Features
Book TitleAction Inquiry : the Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership
Number of Pages264 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2004
TopicLeadership, Business Communication / General, Learning Styles, Organizational Development
IllustratorYes
GenreEducation, Business & Economics
AuthorBill Torbert, David Rooke, Dalmar Fisher
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight13.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-063777
Reviews"Buckle up your seatbelt and enjoy the ride. Torbert is an original and his ideas about life, learning and leadership will rattle your brain and stir your soul." --Charles Derber, author of Corporation Nation, People Before Profit, and Regime Change Begins at Home "In Action Inquiry, Bill Torbert and his colleagues take on a question as old as Socrates: how to translate human understanding into right action. They argue that we must develop the capacity not only to anticipate consequences, but also to reevaluate our goals and to challenge our deepest assumptions in response to changing contexts and diverse perspectives. Their model of self-critical learning offers a much-needed alternative to views that mistake self-assertion for agency and brute force for power." --Morris Kaplan, author of Sexual Justice: Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire and Professor of Philosophy, SUNY-Purchase "We all suffer from a lack of understanding of how to work and live together. Action Inquiry offers the kind of questions and practical ideas we need in order to search for effective truth in our own work and in our life with each other." --Jacob Needleman, author of Money and the Meaning of Life and Time and the Soul "In this path breaking book, Torbert and his team report back from the leadership frontier that each of us faces. Through lively cases, they illustrate how the demand action inquiry makes on you grows your capacity for leadership. Torbert's work is unique. No one else combines such erudition with such evidence and such a sense of immediate applicability." --Jay Ogilvy, Partner, The Monitor Group of Companies; co-founder, Global Business Network; and coauthor of China's Futures "Bill Torbert understands something that few students of leadership ever comprehend. The essence of leadership is the capacity to learn in real time. In this marvelous book he not only articulates the principles of action learning, he gives us practical tools. He helps us develop a potent skill. If you wish to differentiate and distinguish yourself as a contributor of the highest caliber, read this work. It will enlarge your mind and expand your capacity." --Robert E. Quinn, Professor, University of Michigan Business School, and author of Building the Bridge as You Walk on It: A Guide for Leading Change "In Action Inquiry, Bill Torbert makes a major contribution to the emerging conversation between academia and the world of affairs. This conversation is essential as our global society faces extraordinary new problems of sustainability of the global ecosystems and justice for all humanity. Torbert's vision and practice of inquiring, collaborative leader- ship offers an important key to how we can address these urgent issues at individual, organizational and societal levels." --Peter Reason, Director, Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice, University of Bath "For years now I have watched intense personal and sometimes organizational transformations take place as participants in Boston College's Leadership for Change Program experiment with the ideas that Bill Torbert presents in this book. This book dramatically illustrates how action inquiry can be a path to self- and other-awareness, insight, and positive changes of the sort that can shape a world in the future that we will all want to live in." --Sandra Waddock, author of Leading Corporate Citizens
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal658.4/092
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction: The Promise and the Power of Action Inquiry PART ONE Learning Action Inquiry Leadership Skills 1 Fundamentals of Action Inquiry 2 Action Inquiry as a Manner of Speaking 3 Action Inquiry as a Way of Organizing INTERLUDE Action Inquiry: The Idea and the Experience PART TWO Transforming Leadership 4 The Opportunist and the Diplomat: Action-logics you probably resort to, but don't want to be circumscribed by 5 The Expert and the Achiever: The most common managerial action-logics 6 The Individualist Action-Logic: Bridge to transforming leadership 7 The Strategist Action-Logic: Developing transforming power PART THREE Transforming Organizations 8 Transforming Meetings, Teams, and Organizations 9 Facilitating Organizational Transformations 10 The Social Network Organization and Transformation Toward Collaborative Inquiry 11 The Quintessence of Collaborative Inquiry PART FOUR The Ultimate Spiritual and Societal Intent of Action Inquiry 12 The Fresh Action Awareness of Alchemists 13 Creating Foundational Communities of Inquiry Appendix: Concluding Scientific Postscript on Methods of Inquiry Bibliography Index
Synopsis"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., Action Inquiry is the process of transformational learning that individuals can undertake to better assess current dangers and opportunities, act in a timely manner, and make future visions come true. Through short stories of leadership and organizational changes, this book illustrates how this process can increase personal integrity, improve relationships, and lead to long-term success., "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., "Action Inquiry" introduces readers to "action inquiry" - a type of disciplined leadership practice that increases the timeliness of one's actions. Timely leadership action helps teams, organizations, and still larger institutions become more creative, more aware, more just, and more capable of self-transformation as warranted. The book's appendix describes the scholarly basis for the book's claims, as well as how the practice of action inquiry transforms social science itself.
LC Classification NumberHD57.7.T675 2003
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