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Books about Future Search

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

A presentation of often contrarian insights into how to design meetings that actually accomplish something.

List price: $19.95 plus $4.95 shipping.
Members: $15.95 plus $4.95 shipping.

   
Future Search--An Action Guide to Finding Common Ground in Organizations & Communities

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

The latest edition of the definitive book on a change method proven effective in most of the world's cultures. Thoroughly revised and updated, with nine new chapters. Provides a wealth of tools, handouts, and practical aids.

336 Pages. Berrett Koehler, 2010

List price: $29.95 plus $4.95 shipping.
Members: $26.95 plus $4.95 shipping.

   
Productive Workplaces - Organizing and Managing for Dignity, Meaning, and Community

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.

List price: $46.00 plus $4.95 shipping.
Members: $46.00 plus $4.95 shipping.

   
Discovering Common Ground--How Future Search Conferences Bring People Together to Achieve Breakthrough Innovation, Empowerment, Shared Vision, and Collaborative Action

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.

List price: $28.95 plus $4.95 shipping.
Members: $24.00 plus $4.95 shipping.

   
Mobiliser l'organisation face à son avenir.La Demarche Prospective

Mobiliser l'organisation face a son avenir.La Demarche Prospective
by Jean-Pierre Beaulieu and Emile Carriere

Offers a differentiation from classic forms of strategic planning reserved to Senior Management and Experts with Future Search (Demarche 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, Gaetan Morin, Boucherville, Quebec ISBN 2-89105-764-3, ISSN 1491-4727. Order Tel : (450) 449-7886, fax : (450) 449-1096. Website : www.groupemorin.com

   
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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.

List price: $50.00 plus $4.95 shipping.

   
 

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.

List price: $50.00 plus $4.95 shipping.

   
 

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.

List price: $35 plus $4.95 shipping.

 

 


 

 

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