Organizational Psychology

Delivering Health Care in Complex Adaptive Systems I: The Nature of Dynamic Systems

Delivering Health Care in Complex Adaptive Systems I: The Nature of Dynamic Systems

We face a major challenge in seeking to lead complex mid-21st Century organizations—and this is particularly a challenge regarding health care organizations and systems.

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Performing in a VUCA-Plus World

Performing in a VUCA-Plus World

William Berguiqst offers a 45 minute presentation on the implications for perfomrance in organizations of six major environmental challenges of …

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The Complexity of 21st Century Health Care

The Complexity of 21st Century Health Care

There is much we can learn from our COVID experiences that would benefit not only our understanding of 21st Century health care systems, but also more generally the nature and dynamics of all complex systems in which we live and work.

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Organizational Consultation XXXIII: Appreciative Leadership in the Sacred Domain

Organizational Consultation XXXIII: Appreciative Leadership in the Sacred Domain

Most of the old notions about leadership were based on sacred perspectives regarding the world. A great leader is an …

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Organizational Consultation XXXII: The Appreciative Leader: From a 21st Century Perspective

Organizational Consultation XXXII: The Appreciative Leader: From a 21st Century Perspective

[Note: Most of this essay was actually wirtten during the last decade of the 20th Century. The themes introduced, however, …

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Organizational Consultation XXXI: The Appreciative Leader: From A Traditional Perspective

Organizational Consultation XXXI: The Appreciative Leader: From A Traditional Perspective

How does one address this interplay between order and chaos? How does one move beyond the contextual model of leadership …

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Organizational Consultation XXX: Leadership and the Appreciative Perspective

Organizational Consultation XXX: Leadership and the Appreciative Perspective

The time has come to directly address the issue of appreciative leadership. Specifically, the time has come to focus on an important proposition: if a leader is appreciative in her own engagement with other members of the organization, then the task of implementing appreciative strategies is much less formidable.

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Organizational Consultation XXX: Leadership and the Appreciative Perspective

Organizational Consultation XXX: Leadership and the Appreciative Perspective

We have now completed our journey around the Appreciative Triangle. We have ventured into the domains of information, intentions and …

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Organizational Consultation XXIX: Portfolio-Based Assessments

Organizational Consultation XXIX: Portfolio-Based Assessments

I turn now to the final approach to performance appraisal. I have saved this for last, because it is by …

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Organizational Consultation XXVIII: Multi-Source Assessment (360-Degree Feedback)

Organizational Consultation XXVIII: Multi-Source Assessment (360-Degree Feedback)

Though it is plagued with as many problems as the IFA model of performance appraisal, the multi-source method for appraising …

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