Leading Systems: Lessons from the Power Lab - Softcover

Oshry, Barry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1576750728 ISBN 13: 9781576750728

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1999

Synopsis

In three parts, management educator Barry Oshry explains the phenomena of systems and leadership as experienced through his innovative Power Lab, a total-immersion experience that shows how to exert leadership in the family, the community, organizations, and the nation. The Power Lab shows how and why we repeatedly fall into systemic relationship problems, and what it takes to break out of the pattern. Once people recognize that they are system creatures, they can begin to master system processes rather than fall victim to them.

About this title

About the Author

Barry Oshry, a pioneer in systems thinking, is the creator of Power Lab, the Organization Workshop on Creating Partnership, which he has conducted in hundreds of organizations in the U.S. and around the world. He and his wife and partner, Karen Ellis Oshry, are cofounders of Power & Systems, Inc., an educational institute dedicated to providing programs and publications that deepen people's understanding of social system phenomena.

A former Chairman of the Department of Human Relations at Boston University, Oshry has presented keynote addresses and workshops for the Association of Quality and Participation, the American Management Association, the Organizational Development Network, and GOAL/QPC.

Review

"Leading Systems gets to the dynamics of leadership and power relations more effectively than the usual jargon and rhetoric. People who read this book will see that they can avoid the pitfalls of system life and create healthy societies." -- Betty Friedan, Author and Lecturer

"Leading Systems is the best book on systems living and action I have ever read. The writing is powerful and compelling. It offers a way for us to experience our power, our freedom, our anxiety, and still stay deeply engaged in serving the systems of which we are a part. I highly recommend this book." -- Peter Block, author of Stewardship and The Empowered Manager

"One of the truly great management educators of the era. . . . Every manager, executive, and leader benefits from the insights which jump out of his provocative writings. His ideas will still be sparkling decades from now." -- Kenwyn K. Smith, Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Edition details

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1576750728
• ISBN 13: 9781576750728
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 202