The Change Handbook Chapters

Selected Chapters from The Change Handbook, edited by Peggy Holman, Tom Devane, and Steven Cady

In 1999, the first edition of The Change Handbook provided a snapshot of a nascent field that broke barriers by engaging "whole systems" of people from organizations and communities in creating their own future. In the last seven years, the field has exploded. In this completely revised and updated second edition, lead authors Peggy Holman, Tom Devane, and Steven Cady profile sixty-one change methods--up from eighteen in the first edition. Nineteen of these methods are explored in depth, with case studies, answers to frequently asked questions, and details on the roles and responsibilities of the people involved, conditions for success, and more. This tremendously expanded second edition--400 pages longer, nearly twice the length of the first edition--will undoubtedly become the definitive resource in this rapidly expanding area.

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• The Big Picture: Making Sense of More than Sixty Methods

• Selecting Change Methods: The Art of Mastery

• Preparing to Mix and Match Change Methods

• Creating Conditions for Sustainable Change

• Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change

• Collaborative Loops

• Dialogue and Deliberation Processes

• Integrated Clarity: Energizing How We Talk and What We TAlk
  About in Organizations

• Open Space Technology

• The Technology of Participation

• Whole-Scale Change

• The World Cafe

• Ancient Wisdom Council

• The Genuine Contact Program

• Appreciative Inquiry Summit

• The Conference Model

• Consensus Decision Making

• Conversation Cafe

• Dynamic Facilitation

• Human Systems Dynamics

• Leadership Dojo

• Evolutions of Open Systems Theory

• OpenSpace-Online Real-Time Methodology

• Organization Workshop

• PeerSpirit Circling: Creating Change in the Spirit of Cooperation

• Power of Imagination Studio: A Further Development of the Future Workshop Concept

• Real-Time Strategic Change

• SimuReal: Action Learning in Hyperdrive

• Study Circles

• Think Like a Genius: Realizing Human Potential Through the Purposeful Play of Metamorphing

• Hope for the Future: Working Together for
  a Better World

• From Chaos to Coherance: The Emergence of Inspired Organizations and Enlightened Communities

• High-Leverage Ideas and Actions You Can Use to
  Shape the Future

• Visual Explorer

• Web Lab's Small Group Dialogues on the
  Internet Commons

• Dynamic Planning and the Power of Charrettes

• Future Search: Common Ground Under
  Complex Conditions

• Scenario Thinking

• Search Conference

• Community Summits

• Large Group Scenario Planning

• SOAR: A New Approach to Strategic Planning

• Strategic Forum

• Strategic Visioning: Bringing Insight to Action

• The 21st Century Town Meeting: Engaging Citizen
  in Governance

• Community Weaving

• Participative Design Workshop

• Collaborative Work Systems Design

• The Whole Systems Approach: Using the Entire System to Change and Run the Business

• The Rapid Results Method to Jump-Start Change

• Action Learning

• Action Review Cycle and the After Action
  Review Meeting

• Balanced Scorecard

• Civic Engagement: Restoring Community through Empowering Conversations

• The Cycle of Resolution: Conversational Competence for Sustainable Collaboration

• Employee Engagement Process

• Gemeinsinn-Werkstatt: Project Framework for Community Spirit

• Idealized Design

• The Six Sigma Approach to Improvement and Organizational Change

• The Practice of Empowerment: Changing Behavior and Developing Talent in Organizations

• Values Into Action

• WorkOut

• Online Environments That Support Change

• Using PlayBack Theatre to Create Empathy

• Visual Recording and Graphic Facilitation: Helping People See What They Mean

• The Drum Cafe: Building Wholeness, One Beat at a Time

• Jazz Lab: The Music of Synergy

• The Learning Map Approach

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