Agenda

Planning a Future Search

Skill Building

Follow Up

Lessons
Learned

Books and Videos

Don't Just Do Something, Stand There! Ten Principles for Leading Meetings That Matter
by Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff

Most people think meetings are all too often a waste of time. But Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff say that's only because of the way most meetings are set up and run. In Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!, they offer ten princples that will allow you to get more done in meetings by doing less.

• Filled with case examples and exercises
• Draws on authors' decades of experience working with businesses, non-profits and government agencies worldwide.

Berrett-Koehler, 2007

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Future Search - Getting the Whole System in the Room for Vision, Committment, and Action
by Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff

Future Search is one of the best established, widespread, and effectige methods to enabling groups of people to collectively move forward. Diverse groups worldwide use Future Search to achieve three benefits from a single meeting: a shared vision; an implementation plan; and commitment to act.Authors Weisbord and Janoff guide you through every step in this revised, reorganized, and updated third edition that features nine brand new chapters. 3rd. edition, Berrett-Koehler, 2010.

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Productive Workplaces Revisited - Organizing and Managing for Dignity, Meaning, and Community
by Marvin Weisbord

In Productive Workplaces Revisited, Marvin Weisbord takes the next step in exploring effective strategies for improving workplace productivity  through dignity, meaning, and community. Remarkably, in this new edition the author revisits the case studies from the first edition, Productive Workplaces, to show the long-term effects of OD interventions -- twenty-plus years after the fact and provides invaluable insights for practitioner and student alike. In five new chapters, Weisbord reinterprets his systems work in health care and steel-making, describes how “Future Search,” his method for “getting everybody improving whole systems,” has crossed cultures on five continents, and summarizes his learning from following up cases decades later. This edition also presents in-depth case studies of organizations that have used these techniques to increase output, cut costs, create strategic plans, manage conflict between functions, and more.

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Discovering Common Ground--How Future Search Conferences Bring People Together to Achieve Breakthrough Innovation, Empowerment, Shared Vision, and Collaborative Action
by Marvin Weisbord and 35 international co-authors

Case studies showing theory in action from around the world. A definitive book on the underlying theory, research, and practical applications providing general guidelines for successful conferences. 444 pages, Berrett-Koehler, 1992.

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Mobiliser l'organisation face à son avenir.La Demarche Prospective
by Jean-Pierre Beaulieu and Émile Carrière

Offers a differentiation from classic forms of strategic planning reserved to Senior Management and Experts with Future Search (Démarche prospective) where all affected parties are involved in imaging and committing to a future of their choice. Four cases are reviewed in detail. (Two from business in Quebec and France, one community, one Health Care).

154 pages, $ 35.00 (Canadian) + taxes, Gaëtan Morin, Boucherville, Québec ISBN 2-89105-764-3, ISSN 1491-4727. Order Tel : (450) 449-7886, fax : (450) 449-1096. Website : www.groupemorin.com

Videos

Discovering Community--A Future Search as a Springboard for Action in Santa Cruz County
A 30 minute Blue Sky Productions video documenting a future search around affordable housing conducted by Sandra Janoff and Marvin Weisbord in Santa Cruz, California. Includes 18 month follow-up.

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Search for Quality
A 30 minute Blue Sky Productions video documenting Haworth Corporation's future search with 70 stakeholders, led by Marvin Weisbord. Includes follow-up interviews two years later.

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The Children of Southern Sudan
A 30 minute Blue Sky Productions video documenting UNICEF-sponsored future searches with Sudanese children and adults to address the crisis of losing a generation of children to the turmoil of a brutal civil war, led by Sandra Janoff.

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