The dance of change : the challenges of sustaining momentum in learning organizations

Senge, Peter M. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780385493222 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0385493223 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
ix, 595 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
Publisher: New York : Currency/Doubleday, 1999.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"A fifth discipline resource."

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

I. Orientation -- 1. Toward an Atlas of Organizational Change -- 2. The Life Cycle of Typical Change Initiatives -- 3. The Leadership of Profound Change -- 4. The Challenges of Profound Change -- 5. How to Read This Book -- II. Generating Profound Change -- 1. Establishing a Pilot Group -- 2. The Growth Processes of Profound Change -- 3. Rethinking Time -- 4. Limits Ahead -- The Challenges of Initiating -- III. Not Enough Time -- 1. The Challenge -- 2. Culture Change at General Electric -- 3. Five Ways to Create Time -- 4. Minimal Intervention -- 5. Barking and Nonbarking Dogs -- 6. Managing a Practice Field -- 7. Integrating Work and Personal Life ... in Practice -- IV. No Help (Coaching and Support) -- 1. The Challenge -- 2. From Golf to Polo -- 3. A Cadre of Coaches -- 4. Climbing Out of the Muck -- 5. Precepts for Mentors -- 6. A Strategy for Building Competence -- 7. Five Kinds of Systems Thinking -- 8. Aikido for Change Leaders -- 9. Music, Listening, and Freedom -- V. Not Relevant -- 1. The Challenge -- 2. The Case for Change at Visteon -- 3. "What Are We Doing This For?" -- 4. A Light Touch and a Long View -- 5. The Pinecone Strategy -- 6. Learning What We're Worth -- 7. Open-Book Management -- 8. After Fixing the Crisis -- 9. The History Map -- 10. Four Futures for a Change Initiative -- 11. Practicing Relevance -- VI. Walking the Talk -- 1. The Challenge -- 2. The Executive Leader's Perspective -- 3. How to "Walk the Talk" Without Falling Off a Cliff -- 4. "... As one of the first black engineers in South Africa ..." -- 5. "How Are We Hindering Our Management?" -- 6. Reflections for an Executive Leader -- The Challenge of Sustaining Transformation -- VII. Fear and Anxiety -- 1. The Challenge -- 2. Gray Stamps -- 3. Unilateral Control -- 4. When Good People Do Terrible Things... -- 5. A Safe Place for "Not Knowing" -- 6. Heroic Modes -- 7. Unraveling the Knots from Your "Family of Origin" -- 8. Beyond "Winners and Losers" --