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  • 1.  Book Publication

    Posted 10-17-2019 15:09

    My new book, "The Flow of Organizational Culture", has been released by Palgrave MacMillan.

    This book presents new approaches for understanding and consulting to organizational culture based in process metaphysics, complexity theory, and social constructionism. I show that most existing definitions of organizational culture are inadequate and I argue that organizational culture is socially constructed. I build on Edgar Schein's idea to show that culture emerges as a dynamic response to problem solving by the organization's members.

    The book is available in hard copy and as an eBook at Amazon.com, Barns & Noble.com, and Palgrave MacMillan.com.

    To help me celebrate, please join me LIVE for my one-hour Weaving Influence webinar, "The Flow of Organizational Culture-With Jim MacQueen" on Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 1PM to 2PM, EST. Go to https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rRqO-VhNRMKrSUpz4_idQg to reserve your spot at this free webinar event.

    Here's what some people are saying about the book…

    "We all know how powerful organization culture is and we remain puzzled about ways to shape it in productive ways. This book moves us a step forward. It both honors and clarifies how we think and act on culture. It is a beautiful embodiment of its opening quote from Lewin that "there is nothing so practical as a good theory." Well worth reading."  

    – PETER BLOCK
    Founder of Designed Learning; author, Flawless Consulting

     "Organizational culture is the ever-evolving product of dynamic webs that connect individuals and groups. Jim's book awakens us to contemplate this flow in everyday life... Thought-provoking and profoundly skill-building. This book is for all system-change professionals who want to deepen their conceptualization of healthy human systems and put their participatory values into practice".
    –SAM KANER, Ph.D. Executive Director of Community at Work; author, "Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making"

     In this well-written, expert, and important book, Jim MacQueen gives us unique and coherent access to Organizational Culture.   Why is this important?  For both the practitioner and scholar within our OD professional selves, a deep and useful grasp of Culture's sense/meaning and application/theory, like breathing, is essential to our own effectiveness.     I found learning, challenges to my thinking, and new perspectives on many pages.    Future readers should have the same experience.
    –George H. Schofield, PhD. Organizational/Developmental Psychologist, Author, Consultant, Speaker

    This book brings a new synthesis to understanding and changing organization culture, which is a critical focus of how organizations adapt and become most effective. Jim brings complexity, emergence and consulting into the discussion which will help with today's challenges.

    Jim MacQueen has brought forward a creative, integrative update on understanding and changing organization cultures, a serious and often needed aspect of change work. He weaves together exemplar previous works on culture with challenges spawned by higher levels of complexity, working more with emergence and improving the role of consulting in this work. There is a lot here for any leader or change agent to grasp about how to work with culture. 
    –David W, Jamieson, Ph.D. Professor & Director, Doctorate in Organization Development & Change Opus College of Business University of St. Thomas



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    Jim MacQueen
    Bethel, AK
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