Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction

Part I: Learning
1 Any Sector, Any Culture: Future Search Cases from Everywhere
2 The Ripple Effect: How One Meeting Can Change the World
3 Conditions for Success
4 Origins of Future Search Principles
5 In Pursuit of the Perfect Meeting

Part II: Planning
6 Is Future Search for You?
7 Generating Money with Future Search
8 Planning to Succeed
9 Attending to the Details

Part III: Doing
10 Facilitating by “Just Standing There”
11 Riding the Roller Coaster
12 Same Principles, Other Uses

Part IV: Sustaining
13 Follow-up That Works
14 Listening to Leaders
15 Future Search Research and Evaluation
Epilogue: Could This “New Paradigm” Really Be an Old One?
Appendices
Acknowledgments
Photo Credits
Index
About the Authors

About the Author

Marvin Weisbord, an international consultant for more than forty years, is the author of Organizational Diagnosis and Productive Workplaces Revisited and editor and coauthor of Discovering Common Ground.

Sandra Janoff, consultant and psychologist, works with Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, communities, and nonprofits on whole systems transformation.

Reviews

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—Margaret Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science and Turning to One Another