Action Inquiry The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership

Name: Action Inquiry The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership
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ISBN: 9781576752647

ISBN-10: 157675264X

ISBN-13: 9781576752647

Edition: 2004

Authors: Bill Torbert

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This title introduces readers to action inquiry - a type of disciplined leadership practise that increases the timeliness of one's actions. Timely leadership action helps teams, institutions and organizations become more creative, more aware, more just, and more capable of self-transformation as warranted.

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/13/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 0.60" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Promise and the Power of Action Inquiry



Learning Action Inquiry Leadership Skills



Fundamentals of Action Inquiry



Action Inquiry as a Manner of Speaking



Action Inquiry as a Way of Organizing


Interlude: Action Inquiry: The Idea and the Experience



Transforming Leadership



The Opportunist and the Diplomat: Action-logics you probably resort to, but don't want to be circumscribed by



The Expert and the Achiever: The most common managerial action-logics



The Individualist Action-Logic: Bridge to transforming leadership



The Strategist Action-Logic: Developing transforming power



Transforming Organizations



Transforming Meetings, Teams, and Organizations



Facilitating Organizational Transformations



The Social Network Organization and Transformation Toward Collaborative Inquiry



The Quintessence of Collaborative Inquiry



The Ultimate Spiritual and Societal Intent of Action Inquiry



The Fresh Action Awareness of Alchemists



Creating Foundational Communities of Inquiry



Concluding Scientific Postscript on Methods of Inquiry


Bibliography


Index