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Authors: Shirley Hord, James Roussin, William Sommers
Publisher: Corwin, A SAGE Company
Date: 2010
Medium: Paperback Book (240 pages)
Cost: $38.95 (includes $4.00 for shipping)

Shirley M. Hord and William A. Sommers' best-selling book, Leading Professional Learning Communities, introduced educators to the research-based components of an effective professional learning community (PLC). Now, this implementation handbook, Guiding Professional Learning Communities, offers over 30 structured "learning opportunities" to help busy educators put the components into practice.

Valuable as a standalone resource, and ideal as a companion to the original book, this sequel guides educators in developing a new PLC or sustaining an existing one. Members of PLCs can use the engaging learning opportunities to facilitate individual and team development by exploring:.

• Beliefs, values, and vision
• Shared leadership
• Structural conditions
• Relational conditions
• Intentional learning
• Sharing personal practice

Guiding Professional Learning Communities is a rich field guide for increasing and enhancing teaching quality through the power of educators learning together.

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Author: Glenda H. Eoyang, Ph.D.
Publisher: Lagumo
Date: 1997
Medium: Paperback Book (210 pages)
Cost: $33.95 (includes $4.00 for shipping)

Are you faced with rapid change, unexpected consequences, and unpleasant surprises? You are not alone. In these times of massive interdependence, economic disruption, technological transformation, and globalization, traditional tools and techniques often magnify or mask problems rather than solving them. Coping with Chaos: Seven Simple Tools is a down-to-earth, practical introduction to human systems dynamics—where complexity science meets organizational practice. These simple ideas are far from simplistic! You can use insights from Coping with Chaos to:

• recognize chaotic patterns
• use the energy of chaos for positive change
• apply lessons to stories and case studies

Who should read this book? Anyone who wrestles with unpredictable and uncontrollable people challenges. OD practitioners will find it a powerful aid in seeing and influencing client systems. Supervisors and managers will see ways to understand and shape employee performance. Parents, sales professionals, and service providers of all kinds will see new ways to deal with old problems.

This book can be purchased separately, or take it to the next level and experience it together with the webinar of the same title.

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Simple Rules: A Radical Inquiry into Self

Authors: Royce Holladay and Mallary Tytel
Publisher: Gold Canyon Press
Date: 2011
Medium: Paperback Book (163 pages)
Cost: $22.95 (includes $4.00 for shipping)

How can you effectively influence the world and change your life? How can you develop options for action that help you achieve greater success and make a difference for yourself and others?

In their new book, Simple Rules: A Radical Inquiry into Self, and the companion volume, Radical Inquiry Journal, Mallary Tytel and Royce Holladay offer an uncomplicated approach to understanding and transforming your life by guiding your personal choices in alignment with your values. A short list of simple rules is more than a checklist: it is part of the larger dialogue between yourself and the world, pointing the way toward true authenticity and satisfaction.

Simple Rules provides an array of powerful tools for discovering and applying your own simple rules, and illustrating how these concepts can come alive for you every day. Radical Inquiry Journal exemplifies that the heart of this work is about inquiry and seeing the world through questions. Your questions will move you forward in discovering real meaning in the world. Use these two books to begin your own reflection and planning toward a more sustainable and productive life.

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Radical Inquiry Journal: A Companion Tool for Simple Rules

Authors: Royce Holladay and Mallary Tytel
Publisher: Gold Canyon Press
Date: 2011
Medium: Spiral-Bound, Paperback Book (pages not numbered)
Cost: $18.95 (includes $4.00 for shipping)

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Author: Royce Holladay and Kristine Quade
Publisher: Create Space
Date: 2008
Medium: Paperback Book (97 pages)
Cost: $18.80 (includes $4.00 for shipping)

This Primer provides change leaders with a clear understanding of how to bring about system-wide change in today's rapidly shifting landscape. Change leaders need a solid foundation from which to guide their organizations toward greater adaptability. Based on metaphors from complexity science, this book offers key building blocks to establish that foundation from which change leaders can increase the adaptive capacity of their organizations.

Each chapter takes complex ideas and uses simple language to describe the five building blocks required to help change leaders see the patterns in their systems, understand the dynamics at play and be able to intervene to move toward sustainability. Change leaders can read this book now and begin action within hours.

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Facilitating Organization Change

Author: Ed Olson, Ph.D., and Glenda H. Eoyang, Ph.D.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer
Date: 2001
Medium: Paperback book (211 pages)
Cost: $52.00 (includes $4.00 for shipping)

Finally, an alternative to traditional change models - the science of complex adaptive systems (CAS). The authors explain how, rather than focusing on the macro “strategic” level of the organization system, complexity theory suggests we look at the micro level. It is here that relationship, interaction and simple rules shape emerging patterns.

• Describes how the emerging paradigm of a CAS affects the role of change agents
• Shows how you can build the requisite skills to function in a CAS
• Provides tips for thriving in this new paradigm

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Authors: Kristine Quade and Royce Holladay
Publisher: Gold Canyon Press
Date: 2010
Medium: Paperback Book (226 pages)
Cost: $28.80 (includes $4.00 for shipping)

When the world changes as quickly as it does, how can leaders build adaptive capacity in organizations? When you can’t predict or control the future, how can you and other leaders in your organization make decisions that consistently move you toward your goals?

In their new book, Dynamical Leadership: Building Adaptive Capacity for Uncertain Times, Kristine Quade and Royce Holladay offer a new approach that enables leaders to see and influence the patterns that swirl around them. This book uses interviews of current leaders to take readers into the dynamics of organizations to help them understand how leaders’ decisions and activities influence how an organization responds, adapts, and moves forward in complex, challenging times.

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Vision Driven: Lessons Learned from the Small Business C-Suite

Author: Mallary Tytel
Publisher: Gold Canyon Press
Date: 2009
Medium: Paperback Book (312 pages)
Cost: $23.95 (includes $4.00 for shipping)

How does a successful top-level manager or CEO motivate employees and encourage productivity, while navigating the often-treacherous organizational waters? How do they surpass lofty expectations and deliver impressive results with pitfalls lurking around every corner?

In Vision Driven: Lessons Learned from the Small Business C-Suite, author Mallary Tytel reveals the secrets behind winning executives’ strategies for taking charge effectively of small organizations, both for-profit and non-profit businesses. In clear, easy-to-understand prose that’s loaded with real-life examples, Vision Driven shows experienced and newly minted managers alike the do’s, don’ts and don’t-even-think-about-it’s to take their organization to the next level. It’s a no-holds-barred peek into the everyday workings of leading and managing a small organization.

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What Works for GE May Not Work for You: Using Human Systems Dynamics to Build a Culture of Process Improvement

Authors: Lawrence Solow and Brenda Fake
Publisher: Productivity Press/Taylor & Francis Group
Date: 2010
Medium: Paperback Book (206 pages)
Cost: $43.95 (includes $4.00 for shipping)

What Works for GE May Not Work for You outlines an innovative new approach based on Human Systems Dynamics (HSD), offering a pattern-based approach that provides greater flexibility to adapt to the initial and ever-changing conditions that organizations are experiencing today. These ideas are helpful whether readers are trying to recoup their existing investment in Lean Six Sigma or considering an LSS implementation from scratch.

This book provides a realistic framework for understanding the “differences that make a difference” in process improvement. After detailing the “failure modes” of traditional implementations, Solow and Fake provide brief introductory descriptions of Lean, Six Sigma, and Human Systems Dynamics. They then tell a “case story” – a fictitious (though derived from painful real-life experiences) story that highlights the dynamics of a traditional Lean Six Sigma implementation. Then they tell the story again, utilizing the insights provided by HSD and their consulting experience, allowing readers a clear opportunity to see what is the “same and different” between the two approaches.

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Voices from the Field: An Introduction to Human Systems Dynamics

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Editor: Glenda H. Eoyang, Ph.D.
Publisher: HSD Institute Press
Date: 2003
Medium: Paperback Book (227 pages)
Cost: $33.95 (includes $4.00 for shipping)

A network of practitioners around the world use principles of human systems dynamics to frame their adaptive action. This collection tells stories of HSD applied to facilitation, supervision, strategic planning, teaching, community development, leadership, change management, team building, and cross-cultural understanding. In response to Voices, Michael Quinn Patton, Ph.D., author of Utilization-Focused Evaluation says, “Eoyang brings together the metaphors of complexity and practice of organizational change into an action-based praxis she calls human systems dynamics. It is one of the few applications of complexity to social systems that is more than mere metaphor.”

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The Practice of Peace

Author: Harrison Owen
Publisher: HSD Institute Press
Date: 2004
Medium: Paperback book (211 pages)
Cost: $23.95 (includes $4.00 for shipping)

Harrison Owen, inventor of Open Space Technology, reflects on the power of open space as a way of engaging with self and other. In his inimical way, he offers opportunities to reframe conflict into opportunities for shared insight and discovery. He shares stories about how groups come together with shared passion and responsibility to resolve issues that defy traditional approaches to conflict resolution and peace making. A long-time advocate of peace, he says, “This is not peace as we know it!”

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