Clear Leadership, Real change with Gervase Bushe - OrgDev Episode 95

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Gervase Bushe discusses the limitations of engineering organizations for better performance and the importance of inviting change.

We'd love to hear from you so send us a message! What if organisations can’t be engineered into better performance — only invited into change? We’re joined by Gervase Bushe, one of the most influential contemporary thinkers in Organisation Development and a leading voice in dialogic OD. For decades, many change efforts have assumed that if we design the right structure, define the right process and implement the right plan, performance will follow. Bushe’s work challenges that assumption. D...

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Hosts: Dani Bacon, Garin Rouch

Guest: Gervase Bushe

Topics covered

• leadership
• organizational change
• performance improvement
• dialogic organization development
• influential thinkers

Keywords

• leadership
• organizational change
• performance
• dialogic OD
• Gervase Bushe

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Organisation Development, dialogic OD

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