Cultivating Common Ground

ISBN-13: 9780750698320 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 224 str.

Daniel S. Hanson

Opis

This text addresses the issue of caring relationships in the workplace, teaching the reader how to care at work with real-life experiences rather than through conceptual thinking alone. The book promotes working together to cultivate common ground and a conscious commitment to a caring community.

Recenzje

"Brilliant, insightful! Essential reading for those who aspire to be among the new breed of corporate leaders in the 21st century."
--Richard Barrett, Corporate Culture Coach, Co-Director of the International Center for Organizational Transformation

Spis treści

A Prologue: The People Who Grew Vegetables; PART ONE Driving Relationships Underground, Our Struggle with Relationships at Work, Digging Deeper: How We Got Disconnected, The Hawthorne Revelation, The New Organization: A Renewal of Relationships or the Final Blow?, "The Harvest", "The Closing of a Division"; PART TWO Bringing Relationships Into the Open, Four Reasons to Care, Embracing Our Fear of Each Other, From "I to We Without Losing Me","The Joy is in the Dance"; PART THREE Cultivating Common Ground: A Process for Building Community at Work, What's in a Metaphor?, Clearing Out Old Assumptions, From Swords to Plowshares, Discovering Common Ground, Fertilized with Meaning, Sowing Seeds and Nurturing Relationships, Working the Soil Together, Growing Through Conflict, Living in Harmony, Celebrating the Harvest; PART FOUR Relationships and the New Organization, The People Discover New Gardens, The Changing Workplace, A Time for Leadership and Leaders, The Future is Ours if We Learn to Care for Each Other, An Epilogue: A Weekend With Grandpa.

O autorze

Daniel S. Hanson