Catalyzing Transformation
Making System Change Happen
Published on 27. October 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
244 pages
978-1-63742-508-4 (ISBN)
Description
Here's how to make purposeful system change happen!The world faces a multitude of crises that demand transformative changes in how we live and do business. Yet a core question is...how to make purposeful transformation happen? Catalyzing Transformation shows the way through:
Innovative organizing processes that anyone can use to catalyze purposeful whole system transformational change for a better world.
How transformation catalysts work to organize purposeful, self-aware transformation systems that can tackle complex systemic challenges.
Three processes-connecting (seeing, understanding, and making sense of the system), cohering (co-creatively developing shared goals and action plans), and amplifying (implementing, evaluating, and elaborating effective transformative action).
Design guidelines for leaders stewarding change efforts in context-appropriate ways.
Whether you catalyze social changer, responsible businesses, activists, policymakers, or students of change, Catalyzing Transformation can help!
Innovative organizing processes that anyone can use to catalyze purposeful whole system transformational change for a better world.
How transformation catalysts work to organize purposeful, self-aware transformation systems that can tackle complex systemic challenges.
Three processes-connecting (seeing, understanding, and making sense of the system), cohering (co-creatively developing shared goals and action plans), and amplifying (implementing, evaluating, and elaborating effective transformative action).
Design guidelines for leaders stewarding change efforts in context-appropriate ways.
Whether you catalyze social changer, responsible businesses, activists, policymakers, or students of change, Catalyzing Transformation can help!
Reviews / Votes
Catalyzing Transformation sheds much needed light on the fog of our great transition, showing how the very process of transformation itself needs to be transformed in our current crisis." - Jeremy Lent, Author, The Patterning Instinct and The Web of Meaning"Catalyzing Transformation offers sage advice for anyone who believes that a better future is possible and wants to make it a reality." - Dr. Tima Bansal, Canada Research Chair in Business Sustainability, Ivey Business School
"Catalyzing Transformation provides the requisite roadmap for change makers everywhere to realize the transformational change required." - Stuart L. Hart, University of Vermont, author of Capitalism at the Crossroads
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sterling Forest
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
342 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63742-508-4 (9781637425084)
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E-Book
10/2023
Business Expert Press
€17.49
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Person
Dr. Sandra Waddock, Galligan Chair of Strategy, Carroll School Scholar of Corporate Responsibility, and Professor of Management at Boston College's Carroll School of Management, has published about 180 papers and chapters and 15 books. Her books include Building the Responsible Enterprise with Andreas Rasche, The Difference Makers, Intellectual Shamans, and Transforming towards Life-Centered Economies.