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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization
Author: Peter M. Senge
To the Desert and Back: The Story of the Most Dramatic Business Transformation on Record
Author: Philip H. Mirvis, Karen Ayas, and George Roth
Change the World : How Ordinary People Can Achieve Extraordinary Results
Author: Robert E. Quinn
Appreciative Inquiry Handbook, 2nd Edition
Author: David Cooperrider, Diana Whitney, and Jacqueline Stavros
Leading Change
Author: John Kotter
Leading at the Edge of Chaos
Author: Daryl Connor
Handbook of Transformative Cooperation: New Designs and Dynamics
Author: Sandy Piderit, Ronald Fry, and David Cooperrider
Future Search
Author: Marvin Ross Weisbord and Sandra Janoff
Facilitating Organization Change: Lessons from Complexity Science
Author: Edwin E. Olson, Glenda H. Eoyang, Richard Beckhard, and Peter Vaill
Experience AI: A Practitioner's Guide to Integrating Appreciative Inquiry with Experiential Learning
Author: James E. Willis and Miriam W. Ricketts
Liberating the Corporate Soul : Building a Visionary Organization
Author: Richard Barrett
Discontinuous Change: Leading Organizational Transformation
Author: David A. Nadler, Robert B. Shaw, A. Elise Walton, and Associates
Managing as a Performing Art: New Ideas for a World of Chaotic Change
Author: Peter B. Vaill
Champions of Change: How CEOs and Their Companies are Mastering the Skills of Radical Change
Author: David A. Nadler
Building the bridge as you walk on it: a guide for leading change
Author: Robert E. Quinn
Building a Values-Driven Organization: A Whole System Approach to Cultural Transformation
Author: Richard Barrett
Birth of the Chaordic Age
Author: Dee W. Hock
Appreciative Inquiry: Foundations in Positive Organization Development
Author: David L. Cooperrider, Peter F. Sorensen Jr., Therese F. Yaeger, and Diana Whitney
Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination
Author: Jane Magruder Watkins and Bernard J. Mohr
Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Approach to Building Cooperative Capacity
Author: Frank J. Barrett and Ronald E. Fry
Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!: Ten Principles for Leading Meetings That Matter
Author: Marvin Weisbord, Sandra Janoff, and Jack MacNeish
Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution
Author: Tom Peters
The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter
Author: Juanita Brown, David Isaacs, World Cafe Community, and Peter Senge
The Thin Book of SOAR; Building Strengths-Based Strategy
Author: Jacqueline M. Stavros, Gina Hinrichs, and Sue Annis Hammond
The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change
Author: Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom, and David Cooperrider
The Handbook of Large Group Methods: Creating Systemic Change in Organizations and Communities
Author: Barbara Benedict Bunker and Billie T. Alban
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization
Author: Peter M. Senge, Art Kleiner, Charlotte Roberts, and Rick Ross
Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life
Author: Gary Hamel
The Change Handbook: The Definitive Resource on Today's Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems
Author: Peggy Holman, Tom Devane, and Steven Cady
Whole-Scale Change: Unleashing the Magic in Organizations
Author: Dannemiller Tyson Associates
Rewiring The Corporate Brain: Using The New Science To RethinkHow We Structure And Lead Organizations
Author: Danah Zohar
Productive Workplaces Revisited: Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century
Author: Marvin Ross Weisbord
Presence
Author: Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers
Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions
Author: John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber, and Spencer Johnson
Open Space Technology: A User's Guide
Author: Harrison Owen
Managing Transitions
Author: William Bridges
Managing the Unknowable: Strategic Boundaries Between Order and Chaos in Organizations
Author: Ralph D. Stacey
Managing At the Speed of Change
Author: Daryl Conner
Competing by Design: The Power of Organizational Architecture
Author: David Nadler, Michael Tushman, and Mark B. Nadler

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