Leaders, teams and organizational consultants are faced with a situation of permanent transitions. The current world of organizations is full of beginnings and incomplete endings. The author assumes that the endless re-structuring of living networks of relationships in organizations generates, over time, post-traumatic stress disorder in individuals, groups and the whole system.

The book deals with the paradox that continuity is the most important factor in change and that leadership alone solves very little. Even the most heroic figure flounders without the help of the various...