“Action inquiry” is a fresh approach to learning leadership in the midst of action. This highly accessible process takes each of us beyond muddling through daily dilemmas to exercising transforming power at key moments and more timely action in general. Bill Torbert and Associates lead you through more and more sophisticated “action-logics”—strategies for analyzing the world and reacting to it—until you are able to practice action inquiry continually. Speaking to everyone from new managers to CEOs to world leaders, real-life stories of leadership and organizational transformations show how action inquiry increases personal integrity, relational mutuality, company profitability, and long-term organizational and environmental sustainability.Acknowledgments Introduction: The Promise and the Power of Action Inquiry PART ONE Learning Action Inquiry Leadership Skills 1 Fundamentals of Action Inquiry 2 Action Inquiry as a Manner of Speaking 3 Action Inquiry as a Way of Organizing INTERLUDE Action Inquiry: The Idea and the Experience PART TWO Transforming Leadership 4 The Opportunist and the Diplomat: Action-logics you probably resort to, but don’t want to be circumscribed by 5 The Expert and the Achiever: The most common managerial action-logics 6 The Individualist Action-Logic: Bridge to transforming leadership 7 The Strategist Action-Logic: Developing transforming power PART THREE Transforming Organizations 8 Transforming Meetings, Teams, and Organizations 9 Facilitating Organizational Transformations 10 The Social Network Organization and Transformation Toward Collaborative Inquiry 11 The Quintessence of Collaborative Inquiry PART FOUR The Ultimate Spiritual and Societal Intent of Action Inquiry 12 The Fresh Action Awareness of Alchemists 13 Creating Foundational Communities of Inquiry Appendix: Concluding Scientific Postscript on Methods of Inquiry Bibliogls·
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