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Our Reading CircleOne of Creating's core beliefs is that in order to provide top quality service to our clients, we must each be continually challenging, developing and "looking within" to maximize our own potential. In all we do, we aim to WALK OUR TALK! As part of our commitment to our clients' and our own continual growth and development, we'd like to share with you readings we have found to be enlightening, educational and practical. If you are interested, we'd also like to invite you to join our reading circle. What We Are Reading NowCreating...'s reading circle includes book reviews we've read or are reading on leadership, facilitation and process work. We invite you to share in our collective professional and personal exploration and learning. Now, we are reading: links to the corresponding book descriptions |
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Invitation to Join Our Reading CircleCreating...'s reading circle aims to bring together people from around the globe to read and discuss online books, journal articles and case studies on leadership, facilitation, process work, group work, and coaching. To join our reading circle, please contact Susan Ulmer. |
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| We'd like to share with you readings we have found to be enlightening, educational and practical. Included are reviews written by Cathy Bernatt, President of Creating... |
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Roger von Oech |
In our day to day lives, we seldom have a need to think outside the box. We tend to do more of the same thing day in and day out. When situations arise... |
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Taylor Hartman, Ph.D. |
Nature can be described as being made up of four powerful elements: fire, earth, air, and water. Humans have been described by some theorists as having one of four key personality types... |
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Taylor Hartman, Ph.D. |
If The Color Code is about discovering what you were innately born to be (personality), then Color Your Future is about discovering what you were born to become (character). |
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David W. Augsburger |
It's relevance to both my personal and professional development is beyond timely. I found myself reflecting on some powerful leadership and personal lessons I've experienced... |
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Peggy Simonsen |
... I began to fulfill a long held dream to create "the company" that I always wanted to work for. Development Culture in Your Organization could not have been recommended at a better time. |
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William Issacs |
Issacs defines dialogue as "...a living experience of inquiry within and between people." (p.9) There are four core principles that must exist for dialogue to take place. They are unfolding, participation, coherence, and awareness. |
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Peter M. Senge, Art Kleiner, Charlotte Roberts, Richard B. Ross, Bryan J. Smith |
Many business leaders wrote to Peter Senge after
reading The Fifth Discipline, excited by what they read but had one central
question: What could we do on Monday morning to bring the Five Disciplines
alive. The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook is the answer to that question. |
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Edwin H. Friedman |
Generation to Generation is a deep and fascinating read, extending systems thinking into the arena of family therapy. |
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Roger Fisher and William Ury |
Most people when they think about negotiations imagine a battle of positions between two parties. The outcome is most often win/lose. The winner that prevails... |
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Schneider M. Corey & Gerald Corey |
...filled with an invaluable summary of the stages that groups go through, the role of the leader through each of these stages and a detailed description of the member's roles and challenges at the different stages. |
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Improving Intercultural Interactions: Modules for Cross-Cultural Training Programs Volume 2 |
Cushner, Kenneth & Brislin, W. Richard |
The modules focus on three themes: the world of business, the field of education and general intercultural issues. The authors identify four training goals that help discover people's current awareness of culture and cultural differences... |
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Kotter, P. John |
At the outset Kotter identifies 8 errors that are the cause of most failed transformation efforts. They are: 1. Allowing too much complacency... |
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Philip R. Harris and Robert T. Moran |
"For leading-edge organizations, globalism means the creation of a culture that embraces diversity to maximize the potential of personnel, especially through cohesive work teams." |
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Lance H.K. Secretan |
Lance Secretan believes that organizations have sacrificed the soul for the personality. His goal is to help us reawaken and bring soul back into organizations to create what he calls Sanctuaries. |
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Robert K. Greenleaf |
The new leadership emerging, parallels the new science founded on the principles of quantum physics. Movement and change are the norm. Chaos and uncertainty the only absolutes. |
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Spiritlinking Leadership Working through Resistance to Organizational Change |
Donna J. Markham |
A key question that Markham asks is "In...times of ambiguity and extraordinary complexity, when anxiety is high and chaos abounds, how do leaders promote human worth, dignity and creativity?" |
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Jaworski, Joseph |
When we each discover our own destiny, synchronicity enters our journey and assists us in realizing our mission. Until Jaworski found his genuine vocation, he lived life in the fast lane... |
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Peter M. Senge, Robert Kleiner, Charlotte Roberts, George Roth, Rick Ross, Bryan Smith |
The Dance of Change focuses on one particular type of organizational change: that which combines inner shifts in people's values, aspirations, and behaviors with outer shifts in processes, strategies, practices and systems. (This is a collection of notes on Dance of Change -- not a book review) |
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Simons, F. George, Vazquez, Carmen and Harris R. Philip |
The authors describe four stages we typically pass through in acculturating to a new culture. Stage one is emotional excitement at the newness of it all. This is followed by... |
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Virtual Leadership Secrets From The Round Table For The Multi-Site Manager |
Joclyn Kostner, Ph.D. |
There are four steps to creating a level of clarity necessary for all people regardless of distance. First, let people see it. Second, let them talk about it. Third, let them do it. Finally... |
What we are reading now
Invitation to join our Reading Circle
Recommended Reading
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