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
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.
“An important process that constantly reaffirms my faith in
people’s capacity to work together when issues are big and
vital”
—Margaret Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science and
Turning to One Another
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