Books in the J-B O-D (Organizational Development) series

Organizational development (OD) professionals learn how they can attain success by clarifying their own purpose, motivation, and relationship with their career. The authors identify ten personal foundations that influence consulting competence.

Get on the cutting edge of organization development Practicing Organization Development: Leading Transformation and Change, Fourth Edition is your newly revised guide to successful organization development.

This volume in the Practicing of Organization Development Series, provides consultants with a practical guide to family business consulting that is based on sound theoretical material. It provides a roadmap to effective change management for working with family businesses.

Many organizational problems are symptomatic of underlying values issues that are either poorly understood or mishandled. This book explores the major value challenges confronting today's organizations, and offers a systematic approach for revitalizing through growth values.

Leaders and facilitators of organization and system change know intuitively that the context of the work is complex and adaptive, but most have not been exposed to the concepts of complexity science. Without a language and a set of models, they find it difficult to understand or make use of the complexity that inevitably surrounds them.

Organization development (OD) is about planned change. It draws from a diversity of theoretical traditions in human and organization science. A theory-to-practice workbook, the author offers eight change journeys to help readers become authentic and well-rounded practitioners of change.

Part of the "Practicing Organization Development" series, this book deals with the direct and indirect impact of information technology as it affects organizing, managing, and leading people in the early twenty first century. This volume is intended for OD practitioners.

This book shows how the Appreciative Inquiry process helps OD and HR professionals tap into inspiring high point accounts of personal or collective capacity.