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

Mon Nov 24 16:06:16 MST 2008

Wondering Roland, if there is a way of connecting this work
with the AI Commons www.appreciativeinquiry.case.edu
or BAWB http://worldbenefit.case.edu/ sites at Case?
I am not sure how one would go about it, but others
on the list may. I have copied a few Case folk and they
might be able to get you more mileage. 
Good luck with this important work,
Cecile

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Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 8:10 AM
To: Billie Alban; ailist at lists.business.utah.edu
Cc: Arielle at sullivantransformationAgents.com
Subject: [Ailist] Inviting you to publish your choice materials on the
newWiley OD web site

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 ?

Billie T Alban

Alban & Williams, LTD.

400 Seabury Dr

Bloomfield, CT 06002

tel: 860 242-9662

fax: 860 243-0622

cell: 203 770-6911

www.odpartners.com

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

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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
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