The Beauty of the Beast

by Bellman, Geoffrey M.

• ISBN13: 9781576750933
• ISBN10: 1576750930
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-13
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Summary

Reviewing more than 30 years of work with organizations, Geoffrey Bellman offers his insight into the nature of these beasts in all their madness, mystery, wretchedness, and wonderfulness -- and points the way out of the whole chaotic mess. He suggests that by recognizing the beast in themselves, readers will feel less distant from -- and more responsible for creating and improving -- these troubling structures.Bellman combines the beauty and beast aspects of organizations into 20 renewal and redesign principles that teach how to embrace the organizational world while working hard to change it.

Author Biography

Geoff Bellman is an award-winning author. He is a founding member of the Woodlands Group and the Community Consulting Project, as well as a long-time member of the American Society for Training and Development and the Organization Development Network.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Part I Facing the Beast	1	(34)
Hating and Loving Organizations	3	(10)
Accepting Organizations for What They Are	13	(8)
Creating a Bureaucracy to Curse	21	(14)
Part II Searching for the Beauty	35	(36)
Essential Questions for Organizations	41	(12)
Aspiring to Life	53	(10)
Signs of Life in Your Organizations	63	(8)
Part III Finding Beauty Within Beast	71	(52)
The Reach for Renewal	75	(10)
The Roots of Renewal	85	(10)
The Response to Renewal	95	(10)
The Realities of Renewal	105	(18)
Part IV Renewing Organizations, Groups, and Individuals	123	(30)
Renewing a Large Organizations	125	(10)
Bringing Work Groups to Life	135	(8)
Praticing Renewal Daily	143	(10)
Conclusion: The Choices We Make	153	(4)
Related Resources	157	(2)
Index	159	(6)
About the Author	165