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Volume 5, Number 2 • Summer 2008
From The Editor
Deep Diversity, Social Justice, and Organization Development
By Michael Brazzel
Organization development (OD) practitioners are being challenged to address diversity and social justice issues, because of social, economic, political, and environmental changes in the U.S. and world. While diversity and social justice have been part of OD’s history and roots, we often do not have the understanding and approaches needed to address them.
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Organizational Photography®
New lenses for OD, photography as an instrument of intervention
By Henk Hogeweg, Harold Janssen and Fokke Wijnstra
In recent years organizational photography has given us new insights inside the functioning of organizations: namely how people think and act. Organizational advisors facilitate the process in several steps; by taking photographs inside organizations, or by using photographs supplied by the client. In both cases groups will discuss the photographs by applying a variety of discussion techniques. This will enhance the utility of using organizational photography as a change enabling instrument. Digital camera’s speed up the process due to the fact that many photo’s can be made in a short time, development time is negligible, and pictures can be easily shared thereby quickening the selection process. The pictures selected by both clients and the organizational advisers will provide a basis for healthy discussion.
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Looking Out for Each Other at Work: U.S. Air Force Wingman Culture
By Frank Budd
The United States Air Force, USAF, is the predominant air power in the world. Its outstanding people, technology, equipment, training, and leadership are the critical assets that make it so effective in accomplishing its goals. Yet, as every organization consultant knows, success does not come without a price. With approximately 30,000 United States Air Force personnel overseas and almost 7,000 in combat environments, more and more troops are returning home from these deployments with depression, irritability, and reliving intense emotional trauma (frequent images of seeing others killed or wounded, or almost being killed oneself), some of the classic signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). (Campise, et.al., 2006; Greer, 2005)
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Become a Better Communicator by Keeping your Mouth Shut
By Kenny Moore
In corporate life we are in serious danger of believing that those who talk the loudest win the day. My 20 years in business have taught me that leaders who can actually keep their mouths shut and ears open have a better chance of being heard, believed and followed.
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Breaking the Musashi Code: Transcending Competition Through Visionary Strategy
By Matthew C. Heim
Reviewed by Don Bushnell
In this highly readable book, the author Matthew Heim achieves an East-meets-West approach to strategic planning and does so by cracking the code of the ageless Samurai teachings of Miyamoto Musashi. Dr. Heim, with more than twenty-five year’s experience as an OD consultant in systems management and strategic planning, combines Eastern and Western practices in order to create an effective strategic visioning and planning approach that enlists the experience and wisdom of a company’s total workforce and advocates a whole new culture of change for organizations ready to transcend their current level of operations and competition.
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