Parachuting Cats Into Borneo: And Other Lessons from the Change Cafe - Softcover

Axel Klimek; Alan AtKisson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603586814 ISBN 13: 9781603586818

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2016

Synopsis

A toolkit of proven strategies and practices for building capacity and creating transformation

Recent years have seen a proliferation of information on how to make change in business, in social and environmental movements, and on a more personal scale. But, even with all this attention, one out of three change efforts fails to achieve its desired result. How can you make your own effort buck this trend?

InParachuting Cats into Borneo, change-management experts Axel Klimekand Alan AtKisson offer crisp, concise, and targeted advice for success. Theyexpose the most significant impediments helping readers recognize their habitual patterns of thinking and perceiving a situation, critique their own beliefs regarding change, and then move beyond these unhelpful patterns using improved systems thinking.

Named after a classic tale of unintended consequences, Parachuting Cats into Borneo delivers tools that help leaders and others keep their change initiatives on track. The advice imparted will help you move away from agonizing over immediate problems toward stoking action, identifying collaborators, focusing at the right level for your cause, and aiding others in pursuing their change.

Klimek and AtKisson draw from their decades of helping corporations, networks, governments, and NGOs reach their change goals to demonstrate how to use system-based change tools to their maximum advantage.

A closing section is devoted to change making in the realm of sustainability, where complexity abounds but the right tools, used well, can help us tackle some of the most significant challenges of our time."

About this title

About the Author

Alan AtKisson is currently International Transition Director of Earth Charter International, which promotes adoption and use of the Earth Charter worldwide, and President and CEO of The AtKisson Group, an international sustainability consultancy to business and government. He is also the author of the best selling "Believing Cassandra" (Chelsea Green, 1999) and co-author of "The Natural Advantage of Nations" (2006).

Edition details

• Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1603586814
• ISBN 13: 9781603586818
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192