Beschreibung:
A Future Search is a meeting that uniquely enables people to take down the walls that keep them apart. Future Search details this highly successful way for organizations and communities of all types to apply global thinking and democratic values to achieve rapid, whole-systems improvement. In this widely successful approach, diverse stakeholders in an organization, community, or issue come together for two or three days to explore their shared past, present, and future in a global context. What makes this meeting different from other look-alikes are the transformative underlying principles: Get the whole system in the room; think globally (the "whole elephant") before acting locally; focus on the future and common ground; self-manage tasks and take responsibility for action.
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