Workshop Slides
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Seeing & Shifting Systems (Day 1 & 2) – 14 & 15 May 2025 (PDF, 23.5MB)
Organisation Workshop: Additional Reading
Blind to “topness”, leaders unintentionally disempower their organisations. Are you?
By Alex Smith, CEO, BrittendenSmith Ltd (PDF, 247Kb)
“Middleness” – a treatable organisational disease
By Alex Smith, CEO, BrittendenSmith Ltd (PDF, 192Kb)
Is “bottomness” getting in the way of your effectiveness?
By Alex Smith, CEO, BrittendenSmith Ltd (PDF, 192Kb)
I was blind but now I see – Various ways to provide system sight
By Douglas O’Loughlin, Principal at The Dao of Thriving (PDF, 192Kb)
Total System Power
By Power+Systems (PDF, 178Kb)
The Terrible Dance of Power
By Barry Oshry, Power+Systems (PDF, 207Kb)
Articles
Rethinking Public Services with Innovation Labs
By Public Service Division – Challenge
The paradoxes of public sector innovation
By Alexander Lau, Principal Design Lead at the Innovation Lab under the Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore
Internal consulting: perspectives on the process of planned change
By Miriam Y. Lacey, Pepperdine University, Irvine, California, USA (PDF, 38Kb)
Whole System Transformation Through a Polarity Lens: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
By Robert “Jake” Jacobs and Lynnea Brinkerhoff, with Barry Johnson
Anatomy of an Organisation: Additional Reading
Organizational Diagnosis: A Workbook Of Theory And Practice
By M. R. Weisbord
Enduring Ideas: The 7-S Framework
By McKinsey & Company
A Brief History of the 7-S (“McKinsey 7-S”) Model
By Tom Peters
Structure is not organization
By Robert H. Waterman, Jr., Thomas J. Peters, and Julien R. Phillips (PDF, 2.6Mb)
What is organization design?
By Galbraith Management Consultants
The Burke-Litwin Model: A Conversation with Warner Burke
By Quality & Equality
A Causal Model of Organizational Performance and Change
By W. Warner Burke, George H. Litwin (PDF, 1.4Mb)
Burke Litwin Model of Change
By Tahir Abbas
Star Model
By Jay R. Galbraith (PDF, 242Kb)
Light-weight Tools/templates to help kickstart discussions and
experiment with Lean Change
Lean Change Resource Library
By Lean Change Inc.
Books mentioned in workshop slides
Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life
By Barry Oshry
Leading Systems: Lessons from the Power Lab
By Barry Oshry
Context, Context, Context: How Our Blindness to Context Cripples Even the Smartest Organizations
By Barry Oshry
The Beauty of the Beast: Breathing New Life into Organizations
By Geoffrey M. Bellman
Practicing Organization Development: Leading Transformation and Change
By William J. Rothwell, Jacqueline M. Stavros, Roland L. Sullivan
Organization Development: A Practitioner’s Guide for OD and HR
By Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge, Linda Holbeche
Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used
By Peter Block
An Experiential Approach to Organization Development (7th Seventh Edition)
By Donald R. Brown & Donald Harvey
Evaluating Organization Development : How To Ensure And Sustain The Successful Transformation
By Maureen Connelly Jones, William J. Rothwell
Videos from workshop
Selective Attention Test
By Daniel Simons
The Monkey Business Illusion
By Daniel Simons
OD Tai Chi Paul Wang
By Douglas Lee-OLoughlin
Additional Videos
Symphonia Leadership Development and Peter Block’s Flawless Consulting
By Symphonia Leadership Development Pty Ltd
What Lies Beneath – A Human Systems Perspective: A Conversation with Barry Oshry
By Quality & Equality
How to spot polarities
By Douglas Lee-OLoughlin
All Washed Up!
By VitalSmarts Video
Recommended Books, displayed at the workshop
Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making
By Sam Kaner
Organization Development at Work: Conversations on the Values, Applications, and Future of OD (Out of print)
By Margaret Wheatley, Robert Tannenbaum, Paula Yardley Griffin, Kristine Quade
The Change Handbook: Group Methods for Shaping the Future
By Peggy Holman
Creating Intelligent Teams
By Anne Rød, Marita Fridjhon
Turning People into Teams: Rituals and Routines That Redesign How We Work
By David Sherwin, Mary Sherwin
The Essentials of Theory U: Core Principles and Applications
By Otto Scharmer
Principles: Life and Work
By Ray Dalio
The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever
By Michael Bungay Stanier
The Trusted Advisor Fieldbook: A Comprehensive Toolkit for Leading with Trust
By Charles H. Green, Andrea P. Howe
Opening Doors to Teamwork and Collaboration
By Judith H. Katz and Frederick A. Miller
The Systems Letter
By Barry Oshry
The Simplicity Playbook for Innovators: Creating Lovable Experiences in a Complicated World
By Jin Kang Moller
Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!: Ten Principles for Leading Meetings That Matter
By Marvin R. Weisbord, Sandra Janoff
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
By Patrick Lencioni
The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
By Patrick M. Lencioni
Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage in Human Consciousness
By Frederic Laloux
Getting Things Done When You Are Not in Charge
By Geoffrey M. Bellman
The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology
By Lee Ross
Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems
By Barry Johnson
Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World
By Donald Sull, Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
Humble Consulting: How to Provide Real Help Faster
By Edgar H. Schein
Optimizing the Power of Action Learning: Solving Problems and Building Leaders in Real Time
By Michael J. Marquardt
The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth
By Amy C. Edmondson (Author)
Seven Blind Mice
By Ed Young
Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?
By Aaron Dignan
Organization Development Fundamentals: Managing Strategic Change
By William J. Rothwell, Cho Hyun Park, Cavil S. Anderson, Cynthia M. Corn, Catherine Haynes
Yearning for Home in Troubled Times
By Kenwyn K Smith
Networked, Scaled, and Agile: A Design Strategy for Complex Organizations
By Amy Kates, Greg Kesler, Michele DiMartino
The Consulting Process in Action
By Gordon L. Lippitt, Ronald Lippitt
The Consultant’s Calling: Bringing Who You Are to What You Do
By Geoffrey M. Bellman
Facilitating Transformation: 12 Strategies For Creating Extraordinary Breakthroughs With Groups
By Dr Douglas O’Loughlin
In The Middle
By Barry Oshry
Creating Teams That Work
By Institute of Leadership and Organisation Development, Civil Service College, Singapore (PDF, 6Mb)
Understanding OD and Its Role
By Centre for Organisation Development, Civil Service College, Singapore (PDF, 7Mb)
Organisation Development for Leaders
By Institute of Leadership and Organisation Development, Civil Service College, Singapore (PDF, 3Mb)
Team Development Toolkit
By Civil Service College, Singapore (PDF, 886Kb)
The Role of Managers in Improving Employee Engagement
By Civil Service College, Singapore (PDF, 795Kb)
The Agility Factor: Building Adaptable Organizations for Superior Performance
By Christopher G. Worley, Thomas Williams, Edward E. Lawler III
The Thin Book of Naming Elephants: How to Surface Undiscussables for Greater Organizational Success
By Sue Annis Hammond, Andrea B. Mayfield
Systems Thinking For Social Change
By David Peter Stroh
The Systems Thinking Playbook: Exercises to Stretch and Build Learning and Systems Thinking Capabilities
By Linda Booth Sweeney, Dennis Meadows
Culture Matters
By Dr Douglas O’Loughlin
OD CLASSICS – Babies and Clients
By Rosemarie M Barbeau, Organization Development Classics
OD Network Singapore Portal
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