All leaders of organisations I meet live with the question: ‘How can I motivate my people that they deal themselves, out of their own sense of responsibility, with the work challenges they meet, the goals they strive towards, the changes they experience, and that they take the right initiatives?’
Co-workers I meet in organisations live with the question: ‘How can I make sure that they will listen to us, so that finally we can share the real problems we are facing in the work: what are they all doing up there creating changes all the time?’
In this book we explore a new methodology for handling the gap between bosses and workers, in particular a methodology that supports the way we deal together with complex changes of organisations, with ‘slow questions’ that have no easy answers. This methodology meets the inner inspiration that shows itself in the outer movement. It is connected to recent developments in social sciences that are characterised in this book. It is also connected to the practices of leaders in organisations that search for and find new ways for dealing with resistant change issues and processes and with ‘slow questions in swampy circumstances’.
Over de auteur
Professor Dr. Adriaan Bekman (1947) is the founding father of IMO – instituut voor mens en organisatieontwikkeling (2005). He initiated IMO teams in the Netherlands, Germany, Brazil, Finland, Italy, Russia, Israel and Switzerland. He is working as a horizontal leader in family and impulse companies. He initiated the IMO academy online.Adriaan Bekman has written many books and various articles on issues like Leadership, Organisation Development, Consulting, Self management, Community building in Organisations, Taking Initiatives, Experimenting with innovation in organisation.