This comprehensive volume brings together fourteen international scholars to reflect on the relevance of John Shotter's work for emerging concerns in 21st century social science. Showcasing the breadth of his ideas, the book presents a contemporary exploration of Shotter's influence across a wide range of disciplinary fields, substantive topics and practical endeavours.

1. Refracting Shotter 2. John Shotter, uniqueness and poetics: Parallels with Ernst Cassirer 3. "Images of 'Man'": One revolution around another (in roughly forty winks) 4. Well, err; actually...: John's battle with language and certainty 5. Critique, construction and confluence: Journeying with John Shotter 6. The ethics of relational process: John Shotter's Radical Presence 7. On being good researchers: Virtue, sympathetic co-experience and polyphonic unmasking 8. With feeling 9. Responsive improvisation: The shape of emergent dialogue 10. The power of the particular: Notes for an organisational science of singularities 11. Twenty-one words that made a difference: Shifting paradigms 12. Suppose Shotter had not read Dreyfus? 13. Anticipating hope 14. Constructing goes live: Soft self/other differentiation, sound processes and legein 15. John Shotter's contribution to a better way