The Change Handbook

Peggy Holman brings generative processes to organizations and communities, increasing their capacity for achieving what is important to them. Her work encourages people to take responsibility for what they love.
Tom Devane is an internationally known consultant and speaker who helps companies plan and implement transformations that utilize highly participative methods to achieve sustainable change.
Steven Cady is a professor in the management department at Bowling Green State University. He is also the director of the institute for Organizational Effectiveness and former chief editor of The Organization Development Journal.

The Change Handbook features chapters by the originators and foremost practitioners of such high-leverage change methods as Future Search, Real Time Strategic Change, Gemba Kaizen, and Open Space Technology. The authors outline distinctive aspects of their approach; detail roles and responsibilities; share a story illustrating usage; and answer frequently asked questions about how to put it into practice. Examples of successful change efforts acquaint readers with the diverse array of methods being employed today. A one-stop comparative chart allows them to evaluate the methods to determine what will work best fro them, and an in-depth reference section helps them locate the resources they need to get started.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction and Essential Fundamentals

Part I: Navigating Through the Methods
1. The Big Picture: Making Sense of More Than Sixty Methods
2. Selecting Methods: The Art of Mastery, Steven Cady
3. Preparing to Mix and Match Methods, Peggy Holman
4. Sustainability of Results, Tom Devane

Part II: The Methods
Adaptable Methods
In-depth
5. Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change, David L. Cooperrider and Diana Whitney
6. Collaborative Loops, Dick Axelrod and Emily Axelrod.
7. Dialogue and Deliberation, Sandy Heierbacher
8. Integrated Clarity: Energizing How We Talk and What We Talk about in Organizations, Marie Miyashiro and Marshall Rosenberg
9. Open Space Technology, Harrison Owen
10. The Technology of Participation, Marilyn Oyler and Gordon Harper
11. Whole-Scale Change, Sylvia L. James and Paul Tolchinsky
12. The World Café, Juanita Brown, Ken Homer, and David Isaacs
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13. Ancient Wisdom Council, Wind Eagle and Rainbow Hawk Kinney-Linton
14. Appreciative Inquiry Summit, James D. Ludema and Frank J. Barrett
15. The Conference Model, Dick Axelrod and Emily Axelrod
16. Consensus Decision Making, Tree Bressen
17. Conversation Café, Vicki Robin
18. Dynamic Facilitation, Jim Rough and DeAnna Martin
19. The Genuine Contact Program, Birgitt Williams
20. Human Systems Dynamics, Glenda H. Eoyang
21. Leadership Dojo, Richard Strozzi-Heckler
22. Evolutions of Open Systems Theory, Merrelyn Emery and Donaldde Guerre
23. Open Space-Online Real-Time Methodology, Gabriela Ender
24. Organization Workshop, Barry Oshry and Tom Devane
25. PeerSpirit Circling: Creating Change in the Spirit of Cooperation, Sarah MacDougall and Christina Baldwin
26. Power of Imagination Studio: A Further Development of the Future Workshop Concept, Petra Eickhoff and Stephan G. Geffers
27. Real-Time Strategic Change. Robert Jake Jacobs
28. SimuReal: Action Learning in Hyperdrive, Catherine Perme and Alan Klein
29. Study Circles, Martha L. McCoy
30. Think Like a Genius: Realizing Human Potential Through the Purposeful Play of Metaphorming, Todd Siler
31. Web Lab s Small Group Dialogues on the Internet Commons, Steven N. Pyser, J.D., and Marc N. Weiss
Planning Methods
In-depth
32. Dynamic Planning and the Power of Charrettes, Bill Lennertz
33. Future Search: Common Ground Under Complex Conditions, Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff
34. Scenario Thinking, Chris Ertel, Katherine Fulton, and Diana Scearce
35. Search Conference, Merrelyn Emery and Tom Devane
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36. Community Summits. Gilbert Steil, Jr., and Mal Watlington
37. Large Group Scenario Planning, Gilbert Steil, Jr., and Michele Gibbons-Carr
38. SOAR: A New Approach to Strategic Planning, Jackie Stavros, David Cooperrider, and D. Lynn Kelley
39. Strategic Forum, Chris Soderquist
40. Strategic Visioning: Bringing Insight to Action, David Sibbet
41. The 21st Century Town Meeting: Engaging Citizens in Governance, Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer and Wendy Jacobson
Structuring Methods
In-depth
42. Community Weaving. Cheryl Honey
43. Participative Design Workshop, Merrelyn Emery and Tom Devane
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44. Collaborative Work Systems Design, Jeremy Tekell, Jon Turner, Cheryl Harris, Michael Beyerlein, and Sarah Bodner
45. The Whole Systems Approach: Using the Entire System to Change and Run the Business, William A. Adams and Cynthia A. Adams
Improving Methods
In-depth
46. Rapid Results, Patrice Murphy, Celia Kirwan, and Ronald Ashkenas
47. The Six Sigma Approach to Improvement and Organizational Change, Ronald D. Snee, Ph.D.
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48. Action Learning, Marcia Hyatt, Ginny Belde