Creating Futures that Matter Today - by Anna Pool & Marjorie Parker (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A practical guide offering the tools and perspectives essential to helping a team, a department or an entire organization to discover and design more innovative and meaningful organizational futures. It fundamentally re-frames the possibilities for how shared vision can positively impact an organizations' ability to facilitate change.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This book fundamentally reframes the possibilities for how visionary thinking and the creation of shared visions can positively impact an organization's ability to facilitate change. </p><p>Whatever kind of change facilitator you are, be it business or NGO leader, internal or external organizational development consultant, coach, or educator, you already know the importance of inspiring change around critical organizational challenges. But you may be tired of investing energy, time and money into change initiatives that are difficult, if not impossible to implement due to a lack of organizational focus and alignment.</p><p>This practical step-by-step guide will arm you with tools and strategies for facilitating change through engaging your teams and stakeholders in creating, communicating and implementing shared vision, whether the changes are large, medium or small. It enables you to access a team's innate creative capacity to envision meaningful solutions to critical challenges facing the organization - solutions clear and motivating enough to provide a framework for making decisions today.</p><p>There are many books that explain the "whys and how's" of creating and formulating a vision statement. What's missing, however, is a deeper understanding of the real possibilities and broader impacts of visionary thinking as an approach to proactively addressing change. This book is about accessing the collective intelligence of a team to identify challenges and discover new opportunities critical to the future of your organization.</p><p>In this book, co-authors Marjorie Parker and Anna Pool share strategic insight on how to provide visionary leadership that is future-focused, innovative and inclusive. Marjorie Parker is an organizational consultant who during her long career has focused on partnering with organizations searching for new ways to support creativity and innovation.</p><p>Anna Pool has dedicated over 20 years of her career to talent management consulting, executive coaching, and facilitation of leadership and organizational development. Helping leaders lead organizational change through shared vision is so important to the authors that they have provided exactly what you will need to start creating futures that matter.</p><p> </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p> </p><p>"The authors are true pioneers in fostering creative processes for visioning. This practical guide provides leaders at all levels with tools and perspectives that can help a team, a department or an entire organization to shape tomorrow, together. It enables innovative forms of dialogue and sets the stage for the collaborative design of preferred futures. <em>Creating Futures That Matter Today</em> fills an important need in leadership literature that emphasizes the importance of visioning but often provides few practical roadmaps. This book helps to fill that gap."</p><p><strong>-Juanita Brown Ph.D., Co-Founder, the World Cafe </strong></p><p> </p><p>"This book is an essential guide for any senior leader or consultant who needs to help an organization get out from under the day-to-day of short-term priorities and instead, design and implement meaningful, powerful and effective organizational futures. It shows us the path through some of those seemingly impossible business moments when it's either change or become obsolete. This book is a must for all leaders who want their organizations to remain relevant in the future"</p><p><strong>- Barbara Spencer Singer, CEO of Executive Core</strong></p><p> </p><p>"I am extremely impressed with the clarity and usefulness of this book! The impact on people in so many different organizations has been immense - not just in financial and growth terms - but also in catalyzing creative human talent to discover and design more innovative and meaningful organizational futures. Their work has made a real difference, and now, by reading this book, it is your turn!" </p><p><strong>-Dr. Scott G. Isaksen, Professor, Norwegian Business School (BI)</strong></p><p> </p><p>"By following the unique methodology in Creating Futures that Matter Today, I was able to facilitate a powerful visioning experience that helped senior leaders in our company explore and align around a new future state. During the visioning, differences in perspective were treated with curiosity and hierarchy fell away as everyone connected around how much they care about our company's future. With the shared vision as a backdrop, follow-on conversations and business planning processes were more passionate, focused and aligned both on the business needs and the culture required to reach that vision."</p><p><strong>-Lori Costew HR Lead, Ford Smart Mobility </strong></p><p> </p><p>"For the past 20 years, the author's shared visioning methodology has been a key differentiator in our award-winning cross-disciplinary Agroecology M.Sc. program. By teaching our students this approach, they are able to facilitate shared visions across multiple stakeholder groups and can intervene at a systems level without becoming bogged down in details. Using the tools described in this book, they acquire the practical know-how and courage to facilitate important changes through shared vision. Most definitely a book for educators, as well as leaders and consultants!" </p><p><strong>-Geir Lieblein, Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences</strong></p><br>
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