Authentic conversations : moving from manipulation to truth and commitment /

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Author / Creator:Showkeir, Jamie, 1952-
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:San Francisco, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ©2008.
Description:1 online resource (xx, 209 pages)
Language:English
Series:A BK business book
BK business book.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11187283
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Other authors / contributors:Showkeir, Maren, 1957-
ISBN:9781576759813
1576759814
9781605096933
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1576755959
9781576755952
9781576755952
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-194) and index.
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Summary:Authentic Conversations takes a radical new look at the potentially transformational role of workplace conversations. Through over twenty-five years of work as organizational consultants, Maren and James Showkier have discovered that conversation has the power to create, sustain or change organizational culture. But much of the time the kind of organizational culture these conversations sustain is one that stymies growth and erodes commitment. The problem is an organizational culture based on a kind of parent-child model, with leaders treating employees as children who needed caretaking and pr.
Other form:Print version: Showkeir, Jamie, 1952- Authentic conversations. 1st ed. San Francisco, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ©2008 9781576755952 1576755959