It's well known that human beings are allergic to change. This is
nowhere more true than of human beings in organizations.
Organization Development initiatives, Leadership Development
programs, and Business Transformation plans all founder too often
on our resistance and reluctance, on the tendency of people and
things to slip back to how they were before. For a long time,
Systems Thinkers in general (and Power+Systems pioneer Barry Oshry
in particular) have understood that the problem lies with our
failure to look at the surrounding organizational structures and
dynamics, at the wider picture, at the context. Barry Oshry draws
on a lifetime's experience to explain the nature of the problem
with our organizational structures, and the ways in which we can
dissolve the problem. This book is written in play-form: a simple
briefing conversation between a recently hired team member and the
Chief Contextual Thinker for a Business Consultancy firm. They
discuss the change initiative they are running for a key client.
The conversational format allows Oshry to introduce the relevant
theory clearly and in sequence, while addressing questions and
misunderstandings as they arise. The result is a guide to Systems
Thinking for Organizations that's as short, clever, engaging,
bright, and helpful as any business book you have ever picked up.
This is a story with the potential to transform any organization
and it is written for anyone interested in the workings and
structures of human organizations: from Board Directors and Chief
Executives, through Middle Managers to interested workers. ***
"Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, 'Context,
Context, Context' is unreservedly recommended for personal,
professional, corporate, community, and academic library Systems
Thinking, Organization Development, Sociology, and Business
Management collections and supplemental studies reading lists."
--The Midwest Book Review, Library Bookwatch, The Sociology Shelf,
January 2018 [Subject: Systems Thinking, Organization Development,
Sociology, Business]
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