Future Search: An Action Guide to Finding Common Ground in Organizations and Communities - Second Edition Updated & Expanded (Autoren- / zusammenhängende Unterschrift)

Marvin Weisbord

ISBN 10: 1576750817 / ISBN 13: 9781576750810

Published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2000

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Autoren- / zusammenhängende Unterschrift; Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen. This book explains how future search conferences -- where people with a stake in an organization gather to generate creative strategies -- can be most effective.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Future Search: An Action Guide to Finding Common Ground in Organizations and Communities - Second Edition Updated & Expanded (Autoren- / zusammenhängende Unterschrift)
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1576750817
• ISBN 13: 9781576750810
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Future Search is among the best-established and most effective methods for enabling people to make and implement ambitious plans. It has been used to redesign IKEA’s product pipeline in Sweden, develop an integrated economic development plan in Northern Ireland, and demobilize child soldiers in Southern Sudan. Written by the originators, this book is the most up-to-date account of this powerful change method.

This third edition is completely revised, reorganized, and updated with nine new chapters. It contains new cases and examples, advice on combining Future Search with other methods, and a summary of formal research studies. The chapters on facilitating diversity provide a theory, philosophy, and method for working with any task group.
Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff offer specific guidance for Future Search sponsors, steering committees, participants, and facilitators and new ideas for sustaining action after the Future Search ends. They’ve added striking evidence of Future Search’s efficacy over time, examples of its economic benefits, guidelines for making Future Searches green, and much more. They include a wealth of resources—handouts, sample client workbooks, follow-up methods, and other practical tools.

If you want to do strategic planning, product innovation, quality improvement, organizational restructuring, mergers, or any other major change requiring stakeholder engagement, this book is your guide.

About the Author

Marvin Weisbord, an international consultant for more than forty years, is the author of Organizational Diagnosis and Productive Workplaces Revisited and editor and coauthor of Discovering Common Ground.

Sandra Janoff, consultant and psychologist, works with Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, communities, and nonprofits on whole systems transformation.