Action Inquiry - The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership
The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership
Published on 13. June 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-1-57675-264-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Bill Torbert and Associates
Content
Acknowledgments
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
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