[Ailist] Inviting you to publish your choice materials on the new Wiley OD web site

[Roland Sullivan]

The Third edition of "Practicing Organization Development" is about to go to press. 


You are invited to send Arielle Sullivan and I, Roland Sullivan:

Papers
Powerpoint presentations
Camtasia presentations
Pod Casts
Video Casts



 that are related to AI and / or Organization Change. 

They will go on a private web site linked to the book. Of course, your contact information will be provided. We can not have direct commercials but we believe that if you share something of value, you will peak the interest of potential clients.


Will be some interesting materials. .. like an hour video by charlie seashore on self as instrument and Peter Blocks story of how he entered OD.  And archived chapters from the previous editions... Bob Tannenbaum's last publication. 


Thank you

Send to:

Arielle at SullivanTransformationAgents.com 

Phone me if you have any questions

Roland Sullivan.. 612-386-7891 
Two chapters that you may be interested in are by David Cooperider and Billie Alban. Billie puts together a   great history of OD. 

And i support what Billie says below:

FYI. Ron's thesis demonstrated that when a group of people talked about problems,, they lost energy but when they  talked about a preferred future they gained energy. 

A bit more of history. Billie's friend and mine, Beckhard, facilitated the first OD summit in 1950. Six thousand participants all in the same room for days.. they come out with recommendations to change policy for the children of the USA

and the second of note a few years later was faciliated by Ron Lippitt. Margaret Mead hired him to produce a large group of leading educators in Iowa. 



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From: Billie Alban <albanb at aol.com>
To: andy at ai-consulting.co.uk; ailist at lists.business.utah.edu
Sent: Saturday, November 8, 2008 1:32:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Ailist] Examples of great provocative propositions?

Why not take the language from Future Search, which really comes from Ron Lippitt, and ask what people's preferred or desired future is ?







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From: Andy Smith &lt;andy at ai-consulting.co.uk&gt;

To: ailist at lists.business.utah.edu &lt;ailist at lists.business.utah.edu&gt;

Sent: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 3:35 am

Subject: [Ailist] Examples of great provocative propositions?





I am having real difficulty finding examples of provocative propositions  which live up to the criterion of being exciting and engaging. Most of the  examples I have seen on the web seemed to be stuffed with business verbiage  (like "leverage") and dry abstract concepts (like "stakeholder value") and  it's hard to imagine anyone getting excited about them. Hardly any are  written in a way that make them vivid and tell stories.    As an example of one that I did think was exciting, here's one that Tim  Slack of Appreciative People in Liverpool, England shared with me from a  church group that his company worked with - as best I can remember it:    "The bishop visited our church today, and she brought her girlfriend"    Any more like that, which paint a vivid picture?    Thanks,  Andy Smith  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------  Andy Smith ~ Director ~ AI Consulting Ltd  Appreciative Inquiry events ~ consulting ~
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