The Co-creative Meeting: Practicing Consensual Effectivity in Organizations [Paperback]

Co-creative meetings foster invention and innovation, and therefore enable innovative developmental processes in an organizational and inter-organizational context, including strategy development, product development, human resource development, R&D, and trans-organizational projects.This book illustrates the difference between productive and innovative organizations and what that difference means for meetings taking place in such organizations, both from a conceptual and practical point of view.It provides managers, coaches, consultants and other professionals whose job it is to organize meetings with clear and action-oriented guidelines for the design of co-creative meetings, and also shows how to incorporate them through experiential learning.Foreword.- 1 Introduction.- 2 What is a Co-creative Meeting?.- 3 Dysfunctional Meeting Culture.- 4 Interdependency of Meetings and Organizations.- 5 Maxims of the Co-creative Meeting.- 6 Phases and Roles.- 7 Designing for Co-creativity.- 8 Institutionalizing Co-creative Meetings.- 9 Structural Variations for Co-creative Meetings.- 10 Consensual Efficiency.- Index.

Christoph Mandl, PhD in mathematics at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich; senior lecture at Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, University of Vienna; partner in metalogikon; founding member of Society for Organizational Learning Austria; council member of the Global Association of Society for Organizational Learning Communities.

Markus Hauser, M.A. Organizational and Healthy psychologist; psychotherapist (logotherapy and existential analysis); consultant for organization development and leadership development.

Hanna Mandl, Coach at Mandl, L?thi & Partner; partner in metalogikon, council member of The Society for Organizational Learning Austria; violin teacher.

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