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HSD Institute offers books by Glenda Eoyang and other HSD Associates to help you learn about the theory and practice of HSD.
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Influencing Patterns for Change: A Human Systems Dynamics Primer for Leaders
Author: Royce Holladay and Kristine Quade
Medium: Paperback Book (97 pages)
Cost:
$18.80
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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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Coping with Chaos: Seven Simple Tools
Author: Glenda H. Eoyang, Ph.D.
Publisher: HSD Institute Press
Date: 1996
Medium: Paperback Book (210 pages)
Cost:
$33.95
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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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Voices from the Field: An Introduction to Human Systems Dynamics
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Sharon Almerigi
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J. Gwen Kennedy
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Cecil Ryan
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Editor: Glenda H. Eoyang, Ph.D.
Publisher: HSD Institute Press
Date: 2005
Medium: Paperback Book (227 pages)
Cost:
$33.95
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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
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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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Facilitating Organization Change
Author: Ed Olson, Ph.D., and Glenda H. Eoyang, Ph.D.
Publisher: HSD Institute
Date: 2004
Medium: Paperback book (211 pages)
Cost:
$48.00
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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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