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    The Human Creation: A philosophy of organised life
    The Human Creation: A philosophy of organised life
    The Human Creation: A philosophy of organised life
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    The Human Creation: A philosophy of organised life

    By Adriaan Bekman

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    All leaders of organisations I meet live with the question: "How can I motivate my people that they deal themselves, out of their own sense of responsibility, with the work challenges they meet, the goals they strive towards, the changes they experience, and that they take the right initiatives?"
    Co-workers I meet in organisations live with the question: "How can I make sure that they will listen to us, so that finally we can share the real problems we are facing in the work: what are they all doing up there creating changes all the time?"
    In this book we explore a new methodology for handling the gap between bosses and workers, in particular a methodology that supports the way we deal together with complex changes of organisations, with 'slow questions' that have no easy answers. This methodology meets the inner inspiration that shows itself in the outer movement. It is connected to recent developments in social sciences that are characterised in this book. It is also connec­ted to the practices of leaders in organisations that search for and find new ways for dealing with resistant change issues and processes and with 'slow questions in swampy circumstances'.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlert-Verlag e.K.
    Release dateDec 15, 2016
    ISBN9783941136427
    The Human Creation: A philosophy of organised life
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    Adriaan Bekman

    Professor Dr. Adriaan Bekman is the director of IMO - instituut voor mens & organisatieontwikkeling and a Professor at the Hanze University Groningen and Acadamic Director of its Master in Leadership. He also consults organi­zations and their leaders in organization development issues in seven countries. He is the chairman of the Supervisory Board at the Bernard Lievegoed University. He published a wide range of books on leadership, consultancy and personal development.

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