Product Description: All modern group processes that are open to collaboration or to flattening the hierarchy are based in some way on circle practices. As organizations of all kinds move increasingly toward shared and rotating leadership, they are calling on the circle model to form sustainable teams and adopt circle-driven group processes such as World Caf, Open Space, and Art of Hosting...read more

A wide-ranging collection of essays on leadership, family, and community applies the strategies pioneered by the author to a variety of real-world situations--all focused on 'the living systems theory' of organization.

Product Description: All too often, solving tough work issues can become a tug of war as clashing departments, priorities, personality styles, and other concerns threaten to destroy any possibility of a successful conclusion. But by sharing hopes, and focusing on information rather than debate, the path to agreement can become wonderfully clear...read more

An analysis of organizational dynamics as viewed through a lens of modern scientific theory cites the benefits of change in business, in a new edition that provides examples of profitable non-linear networks and organizations. Original.

Draws on new scientific theories on quantum physics, chaos, and molecular biology to provide insights into ways in which people understand, design, and lead organizations, detailing keys to communication, business growth opportunities, and more. Original. 35,000 first printing.

Product Description: Our public school systems must be transformed in order to help every child achieve his or her potential. However, transformational leadership can be intense, complex, and often chaotic, producing storms of resistance, controversy, and pressure...read more

Product Description: Vivimos en organizaciones diseadas desde una concepcin newtoniana del universo. Conducimos empresas que debern sobrevivir en el siglo XXI con paradigmas y supuestos que provienen de la fsica del siglo XVII, pero la ciencia ha cambiado y si queremos seguir nutrindonos de los aportes del conocimiento, debemos al menos afirmar nuestro trabajo en la ciencia de nuestra poca...read more

This general treatise on precast concrete reflects Maurice Levitt’s extensive experience in the construction industry and as a researcher and consultant. It gives detailed coverage of the subject from the material's properties through its manufacture and quality control, and on to specialist topics such as accelerated curing and use in hot and cold climates. It then looks at the properties of precast concrete and its performance in situ before covering standards and testing and then the issues of finishing, repair and jointing. A wide range of professionals in both the civil engineering and general construction sectors should find this an invaluable reference for its guidance on the range of practical questions they can expect to encounter. It will also be useful for students at graduate level.

Insightful and innovative, a guide to revitalizing organizational skills for relieving stress centers around five principles--play, organization, self, emergence, and coherence. Original. 25,000 first printing. IP.

Discusses the power of conversation and the conditions--simplicity, personal courage, listening, and diversity--that support it and explains how such conversations can lead to essential social change on both a local and global scale.

The co-creators of the 'World Cafe' use their successful method of promoting conversation and dialogue as a method for promoting meaningful social reform and change within a corporate environment. Original.