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Coaching to Shift Corporate Consciousness
How is our thinking changing, from what and to what? What is driving this supposed evolutionary shift and what can we do as coaches to align to it
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Professional Coaching, Plato’s Cave and the Sociology of Knowledge
In this essay we engage the sociology of knowledge to identify a host of critical and challenging questions to be addressed by the coach--and the coach's clients
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Theory E²: Working with Entrepreneurial Professionals in Closely-Held Enterprises
Organizational coaches can play an important role in meeting the distinctive challenges associated with entrepreneurial leadership in closely held professional enterprises
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It is Time to Reinvent the Organization: As Places for People to Express Passion and Purpose
Is it really in doubt for anyone that we need to rethink the design of organizations? The current organizing model was designed to solve a problem of manufacturing as the industrial age expanded in
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The Organizational “House of Culture”
Organizational cultures must be adaptable – the house of culture must be designed to quickly and effectively respond to competitive pressures and opportunities. Shifting organizational culture is possibly the most challenging kind of change
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The Organizational Underground: Organizational Coaching and Organization Development Outside the Formal Organization
There are profound implications at the micro-level with regard to the lives lived in “desperation” by men and women who have lost their job or at the very least have given up hope of
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Meta-Systemic Cognition and Coaching
Rational/analytical cognition tends to ignore the context of systems of objects, the fact that all objects are in fact processes, the relationships between objects and that all these constitute transforming systems.
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Understanding and Leading Organizations: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Investigation
The purpose of this paper is to argue for an ontological investigation into the very nature of organizations and their leadership, in the tradition of Heidegger’s hermeneutic phenomenology
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Collective Intelligence: Collaboration or Collusion?
While collaboration is to be encouraged when seeking to increase collective intelligence, a dark side to collaboration must be acknowledged. In some settings and under certain conditions, collaboration is interwoven with collusion
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