From the Book - Regular Print
Introduction: The Promise and the Power of Action Inquiry 1 --
Part 1 Learning Action Inquiry Leadership Skills --
1 Fundamentals of Action Inquiry 13 --
2 Action Inquiry as a Manner of Speaking 24 --
3 Action Inquiry as a Way of Organizing 38 --
Interlude: Action Inquiry: The Idea and the Experience 55 --
Part 2 Transforming Leadership --
4 Opportunist and the Diplomat: Action-logics you probably resort to, but don't want to be circumscribed by 65 --
5 Expert and the Achiever: The most common managerial action-logics 78 --
6 Individualist Action-Logic: Bridge to transforming leadership 91 --
7 Strategist Action-Logic: Developing transforming power 104 --
Part 3 Transforming Organizations --
8 Transforming Meetings, Teams, and Organizations 121 --
9 Facilitating Organizational Transformations 133 --
10 Social Network Organization and Transformation Toward Collaborative Inquiry 148 --
11 Quintessence of Collaborative Inquiry 162 --
Part 4 Ultimate Spiritual and Societal Intent of Action Inquiry --
12 Fresh Action Awareness of Alchemists 177 --
13 Creating Foundational Communities of Inquiry 194 --
Appendix Concluding Scientific Postscript on Methods of Inquiry 209.
pt. 1. Learning action inquiry leadership skills
pt. 2. Transforming leadership
pt. 3. Transforming organizations
pt. 4. The ultimate spiritual and societal intent of action inquiry.
