Agent of Change: My Life My Practice
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RICHARD BECKHARD is a longtime leader in organization development and former professor at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. He coedited Organization of the Future (1996) and Leader of the Future (1996), and is author or coauthor of many other books, including Changing the Essence (1992). Several prestigious awards have been created in Beckhard's name through organizations including the Sloan Management Review, the Family Firm Institute, the U.K. Office of Public Management, and the Latin American Organization Development Association. The author lives in New York City.
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1. The First Thirty Years: A Brief Biography
2. A Transition: Becoming A Human Relations Trainer
3. Relationships: Balancing the Personal-Professional System
4. Becoming an Organization Consultant
5. Organization Development: Shaping the Field of Practice
6. Working in Other Cultures
7. Teaching--and Learning
8. Changing Large Systems Change
9. Developing a Field: Consulting with Family Businesses
10. Adding Value, Senior Style
11. looking Back and Ahead: Learnings and Legacies
A. A Chronology of the Works of dick Beckard
B. Commitment and Responsibility Charts
C. The Confrontation Meeting
2. A Transition: Becoming A Human Relations Trainer
3. Relationships: Balancing the Personal-Professional System
4. Becoming an Organization Consultant
5. Organization Development: Shaping the Field of Practice
6. Working in Other Cultures
7. Teaching--and Learning
8. Changing Large Systems Change
9. Developing a Field: Consulting with Family Businesses
10. Adding Value, Senior Style
11. looking Back and Ahead: Learnings and Legacies
A. A Chronology of the Works of dick Beckard
B. Commitment and Responsibility Charts
C. The Confrontation Meeting
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"This personal account of Richard Beckhard's many careers is must reading for managers and consultants alike. Beckhard, one of the founders and true innovators in organization development, has always been a master at designing interventions that produce learning and the management of change. Anyone interested in organizational, group, and individual learning will find this a fascinating account full of wisdom and insight." —Edgar H. Schein, Sloan Fellows Professor Emeritus and senior lecturer, Sloan School of Management, MIT
"Beckhard has done it again! He sets out to tell us a story?his own?and along the way passes on his great wisdom. He truly is a master teacher. Using the unfolding of his life and career, he teaches us how to be flexible, develop theory from practice, garner strength through experience, create change, and much more." —Fredda Herz Brown, Ph.D., principal, Metropolitan Group, Family Business Consulting
