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Summary
Summary
Organizational Development and Alignment: The Tensegrity Mandala Framework takes a close look at the underlying axioms of Organization Design and Alignment that have not only proliferated rigid structures and oppressive hierarchies, but also have rendered employees worldwide as mere instruments and dehumanized the organizational context.By looking at an organizational system as inherently a Tensegrity structure, an architectural paradigm vitalized by Buckminster Fuller, the book offers the reader insights into the dynamic tensions, role-holding, and dialog possibilities that pervade the modern organization across stakeholders such as investors, customers, employees and the ecology.By containing the organization as a 'Mandala', a dynamic force field with arrays of polarities and counter-pulls that burden the leadership, it explicates the various dilemmas that are contained within, and offers insights into design, policies, culture and role-effectiveness. The Tensegrity Mandala empowers the organization of today towards reflexivity and transformation. It serves as a blueprint for growth, organization development, dialog, and institutionalizing leadership.
Table of Contents
List of Tables, Figures, Case Studies, and Bedtime Stories | p. vii |
Foreword | p. xi |
Preface | p. xvii |
Acknowledgments | p. xxv |
Section A The Conceptual Framework | |
1 Introducing the New Paradigm-The Tensegrity Mandala | p. 3 |
2 Evolving the Tensegrity Mandala-Tenets and Axioms | p. 15 |
3 Enlivening the Tensegrity Mandala-Introducing 12 Nodal Roles and Leadership Roles | p. 53 |
4 Organization Identity-Explicating the Shadows Within | p. 94 |
Section B The Tensegrity Mandala Applications | |
5 Application Set 1: Organizational Diagnosis-Explicating the Pluralistic Realities Within | p. 137 |
6 Application Set 2: From Diagnosis to Intervention Design-Architecting Business Processes toward Organizational Effectiveness | p. 165 |
7 Application Set 3: Intervention Design-Transformation, Change, and Creating a Viable Culture | p. 204 |
8 The Dharmic Organization: Integrating the Voice of Gaia | p. 247 |
References and Select Bibliography | p. 264 |
About the Authors | p. 268 |