OD Network Theory

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OD Network Theory Practice Series
Leading Meetings that Matter
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Leading Meetings that Matter

• Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff

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• Dont Just Do Something,
• Stand There!
• Ten Principles
• For Leading Meetings That Matter

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Leading Meetings that Matter
Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff have led
meetings for decades all over the world. They
co-direct the Future Search Network, an
international non-profit (NGO) dedicated to
offering collaborative planning services in any
language, any culture, for whatever people can
afford. They are co-authors of Future Search
An Action Guide, 2nd Edition (2000). They have
trained more than 3000 people in using their
principles. They are members of the European
Institute for Transnational Studies and the
Organization Development Network.
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Marvin Weisbord was a professional consultant
with business firms and medical schools from
1969 to 1992. He is a fellow of the World Academy
of Productivity Science and for 20 years was a
partner in the firm Block Petrella Weisbord, Inc.
and a member of NTL Institute for Applied
Behavioral Science. He received a Lifetime
Achievement Award in 2004 from the Organization
Development Network which voted his book
Productive Workplaces (1987) among the five most
influential books of the past 40 years. He also
is author of Organizational Diagnosis (1978),
Discovering Common Ground (1992), and Productive
Workplaces Revisited (2004).
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Leading Meetings that Matter
Sandra Janoff, a psychologist and consultant,
has worked with corporations, government
agencies, and communities worldwide on issues of
globalization, sustainability, and humane
practices. She was a staff member in Tavistock
conferences sponsored by Temple University in
Philadelphia and The Tavistock Institute of Human
Relations in Oxford, England. She also has run
training workshops in Systems-Oriented group
dynamics. Sandra taught mathematics, physics and
chemistry from 1974 to 1984 in an experimental
high school and ran workshops in Pennsylvania
schools on alternative practices in education.
She is co-author with Yvonne Agazarian of
"Systems Thinking and Small Groups" for the
Comprehensive Textbook of Group Psychotherapy.
Her research on the relationship between moral
reasoning and legal education was a lead article
in the University of Minnesota Law Review.
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Leading Meetings that Matter

• What Lead Us ToThis Book
• Non-stop Change
• More Diversity Than Ever

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Leading Meetings that Matter

• Why People Hate Meetings
• Wrong People in the Room
• Not Enough Time Together
• Bogged Down in Differences

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TEN PRINCIPLES
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Leading Meetings that Matter

• Part One Leading Meetings
• Get the Whole System in the Room
• 2. Control What You Can, Let Go What You Cant
• 3. Explore the Whole Elephant
• 4. Let People Be Responsible
• 5. Find Common Ground
• 6. Master the Art of Subgrouping

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• Part Two Managing Yourself
• 7. Make Friends with Anxiety
• 8. Get Used to Projections
• 9. Be a Dependable Authority
• 10. Learn to Say No If You Want Yes to Mean
  Something

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Principle 1 Get the Whole System in the Room
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Principle 2 Control What You Can, Let Go What
You Can't
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Principle 3 Explore the Whole elephant
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Principle 4 Let People Be Responsible
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Principle 5 Find Common Ground
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Principle 6 Master the Art of Subgrouping
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Principle 7 Make Friends with Anxiety
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Principle 8 Get Used to Projections
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Principle 9 Be A Dependable Authority
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Principle 10 Learn to Say "No" If you Want
"Yes" to Mean Something
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Changing the World One Meeting at a Time
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Thank you for joining us! Contact the
authors mweisbord_at_futuresearch.net
sjanoff_at_futuresearch.net www.futuresearch.net
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