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The Dynamics of Transformation

Author : Grant Maxwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692810354
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Dynamics of Transformation written by Grant Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Remarkable and nearly unique in its mastery and scope. There is a poetic sense behind the text that draws the reader along with pleasure."Allan Combs, Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina"An inspiring vision."Richard Tarnas, author of The Passion of the Western Mind"By the time one reaches the end of the argument, one has the sense of having undergone a kind of initiation into an ever-widening community of seekers for whom value and meaning, pattern and purpose are the real stuff of which worlds are made."Sean Kelly, Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies "Nietzsche's Zarathustra said 'I would only believe in a god who knows how to dance'; Maxwell traces out those dance steps, which he calls the dynamics of transformation."Timothy Desmond, author of Psyche and Singularity"An important and insightful contribution to understanding the creative transition into a new paradigm of intellectual thought."Keiron Le Grice, Professor at Pacifica Graduate InstituteIn the tradition of books like William James' Pragmatism, Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and Thomas Nagel's Mind and Cosmos, The Dynamics of Transformation is a concise and clear presentation of a radically novel theory with the potential to transform the reader's view of the world. The book offers twelve concepts that trace the contours of an emerging world view after the postmodern. Drawing on the work of a wide range of theorists, from Hegel, Carl Jung, Henri Bergson, and Alfred North Whitehead to Jean Gebser, Richard Tarnas, Ray Kurzweil, and Terence McKenna, it provides a framework for understanding how processes change over time. Synthesizing ideas ranging from quantum discontinuity, fractals, and archetypes to qualitative time, teleology, and exponential acceleration, Maxwell shows how these concepts relate to one another in a complexly intertwined network. He suggests that these theoretical approaches are all confluent streams that have gradually been converging over the last few centuries, and that this increasingly potent conceptual flood appears primed for a dramatic entrance into the preeminent currents of academic and intellectual culture.

Integral Dynamics

Author : Dr Alexander Schieffer
Publisher : Gower Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409471357
Total Pages : 1217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Integral Dynamics written by Dr Alexander Schieffer and published by Gower Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 1217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of integral dynamics is based on the view that the development of individual leaders or entrepreneurs requires the simultaneous development of institutions and societies. It seeks a specific way forward for each society, fundamentally different from, but drawing on, its past. Nearly every natural science has been transformed from an analytically-based approach to a dynamic one: now it is time for society and culture to follow suit locally and globally. Each culture, discipline and person is incomplete and is in need of others in order to develop and evolve. This book sets out a curriculum for a new integral, trans-cultural and trans-disciplinary area of study, inclusive of, but extending beyond, economics and enterprise. It embraces a trans-personal perspective, linking self with community, enterprise and society, and focusing on the vital relationship between local identity and global integrity. For the government policy maker, the enlightened business practitioner, and the student and researcher into economics and enterprise, the new discipline is set out here in complete detail by a multi-national team of Gower's Transformation and Innovation Series authors. Illuminated with examples relating the conceptual to the practical, this is a text, not for a pre-modern, modern, or even post-modern era, but for what has been called our trans-modern age.

The Dynamics of Change

Author : Francis Stickland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134669801
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book The Dynamics of Change written by Francis Stickland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giving a fascinating insight into the world of change and transition, this radical book, aimed at both organizational change practitioners and academics, tackles the fundamental question ‘what is change?’ The answers it seeks will significantly improve attempts to manage change more effectively. Innovative and absorbing, it charts a journey through a range of subjects including complexity science, nuclear physics, climatology, chemistry and chaos theory examining the change phenomena and the lessons it has to offer organizational and system thinkers. Key features include: * a review of the organisational change literature * an introduction to systems thinking * a change framework built up from key change building blocks * examples of change dynamics from the natural and physical sciences, and how they apply to our understanding of change within organisations * numerous summary tables and illustrative graphics This book, the first devoted entirely to exploring what change is as a phenomenon, has a uniquely rigorous scientific approach. It will be a valuable resource for students and professionals alike in the field of business and organizational change.

Spiral Dynamics

Author : Prof. Don Edward Beck
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118779150
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Spiral Dynamics written by Prof. Don Edward Beck and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiral Dynamics introduces a new model for plotting the enormous economic and commercial shifts that are making contemporary business practice so complex and apparently fragmented. Focusing on cutting-edge leadership, management systems, processes, procedures, and techniques, the authors synthesize changes such as: Increasing cultural diversity. Powerful new social responsibility initiatives. The arrival of a truly global marketplace. This is an inspiring book for managers, consultants, strategists, and leaders planning for success in the business world in the 21st century.

Ritual in Its Own Right

Author : Don Handelman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845450519
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Ritual in Its Own Right written by Don Handelman and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, canonic studies of ritual have discussed and explained ritual organization, action, and transformation primarily as representations of broader cultural and social orders. In the present, as in the past, less attention is given to the power of ritual to organize and effect transformation through its own dynamics. Breaking with convention, the contributors to this volume were asked to discuss ritual first and foremost in relation to itself, in its own right, and only then in relation to its socio-cultural context. The results attest to the variable capacities of rites to effect transformation through themselves, and to the study of phenomena in their own right as a fertile approach to comprehending ritual dynamics.

The Dynamics of Social Practice

Author : Elizabeth Shove
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446290034
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The Dynamics of Social Practice written by Elizabeth Shove and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday life is defined and characterised by the rise, transformation and fall of social practices. Using terminology that is both accessible and sophisticated, this essential book guides the reader through a multi-level analysis of this dynamic. In working through core propositions about social practices and how they change the book is clear and accessible; real world examples, including the history of car driving, the emergence of frozen food, and the fate of hula hooping, bring abstract concepts to life and firmly ground them in empirical case-studies and new research. Demonstrating the relevance of social theory for public policy problems, the authors show that the everyday is the basis of social transformation addressing questions such as: how do practices emerge, exist and die? what are the elements from which practices are made? how do practices recruit practitioners? how are elements, practices and the links between them generated, renewed and reproduced? Precise, relevant and persuasive this book will inspire students and researchers from across the social sciences. Elizabeth Shove is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. Mika Pantzar is Research Professor at the National Consumer Research Centre, Helsinki. Matt Watson is Lecturer in Social and Cultural Geography at University of Sheffield.

Organizational Knowledge Dynamics: Managing Knowledge Creation, Acquisition, Sharing, and Transformation

Author : Bratianu, Constantin
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466683198
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Organizational Knowledge Dynamics: Managing Knowledge Creation, Acquisition, Sharing, and Transformation written by Bratianu, Constantin and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promoting organizational knowledge is an important consideration for any business looking toward the future. Understanding the dynamics of knowledge-intensive organizations is a crucial first step in establishing a strong knowledge base for any organization. Organizational Knowledge Dynamics: Managing Knowledge Creation, Acquisition, Sharing, and Transformation introduces the idea that organizational knowledge is composed of three knowledge fields: cognitive knowledge, emotional knowledge, and spiritual knowledge. This book is useful for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in knowledge management, intellectual capital, human resources management, change management, and strategic management.

Integration and Difference

Author : Grant Maxwell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000609146
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Integration and Difference written by Grant Maxwell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking work synthesizes concepts from thirteen crucial philosophers and psychologists, relating how the ancient problem of opposites has been opening to an integration which not only conserves differentiation but enacts it, especially through the integration of myth into the dialectic. Weaving a fascinating narrative that ‘thinks with’ the complex encounters of theorists from Baruch Spinoza, G. W. F. Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, and William James to Alfred North Whitehead, C. G. Jung, Gilles Deleuze, and Isabelle Stengers, this book uniquely performs the convergence of continental philosophy, pragmatism, depth psychology, and constructivist ‘postmodern’ theory as a complement to the trajectory culminating in Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction. This is an important book for professionals and academics working across the humanities and social sciences, particularly for continental theorists and depth psychologists interested in the construction of a novel epoch after the modern.

Stereotype Dynamics

Author : Yoshihisa Kashima
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0805856773
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Stereotype Dynamics written by Yoshihisa Kashima and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the role of communication in stereotype dynamics, while placing the phenomenon of social stereotypes appropriately in the socio-cultural context. Stereotype Dynamics assembles top researchers in the field to investigate stereotype formation, maintenance, and transformation through interpersonal facets of communication. Section one presents meta-theoretical perspectives, strongly informed by theories and empirical research. Subsequent parts address the following research questions in the perspectives of language-based communication: What do the signs in a language mean, and how do the meanings of the signs shape stereotypes? How do people use those signs intentionally or unintentionally? Is language use biased in some way? How do language users' identities affect the meaning of a particular language use in social context? What are the social consequences of language-based communication? Does language-based communication provide a basis for the formation, maintenance, and transformation or social stereotypes? This timely book is ideal for advanced students, scholars, and researchers in social psychology, and related disciplines such as human communications and sociolinguistics. It is also appropriate for use as a supplement in upper level courses on prejudice and stereotyping.

Dynamics of Drivers of Organizational Change

Author : Nicole Zimmermann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3834968110
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Dynamics of Drivers of Organizational Change written by Nicole Zimmermann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often, organizations have difficulties in recognizing the need to change. Nicole Zimmermann investigates the barriers to, but also in particular the drivers of organizational change. From the case-specific as well as from a generic study, a structural model results that is able to explain how environmental and cognitive drivers, inertia and managerial attention interact.

Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland

Author : Niall Ó Dochartaigh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131726990X
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland written by Niall Ó Dochartaigh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the interrelated dynamics of political action, ideology and state structures in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, emphasising the wider UK and European contexts in which they are nested. It makes a significant and unique contribution to wider European and international debates over state and nation and contested borders, looking at the dialectic between political action and institutions, examining party politics, ideological struggle and institutional change. It goes beyond the binary approaches to Irish politics and looks at the deep shifts associated with major socio-political changes, such as immigration, gender equality and civil society activism. Interdisciplinary in approach, it includes contributions from across history, law, sociology and political science and draws on a rich body of knowledge and original research data. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of Irish Politics, Society and History, British Politics, Peace and Conflict studies, Nationalism, and more broadly to European Politics.

Transforming Practices

Author : Stephen Kemmis
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811689733
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Practices written by Stephen Kemmis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook shows how people can and do transform the world through transforming their practices and the practice architectures that shape them, and contributes to contemporary practice theory. It provides an authoritative, comprehensive, and contemporary account of the theory of practice architectures, illustrated through examples drawn from years of research by participants in the Pedagogy, Education, and Praxis international research network from Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Colombia, and the Caribbean. Its content provides a variety of resources for researchers who are new to research using the theory of practice architectures. It includes tables to assist with the analysis of practices, and provides clear examples to aid understanding and application. This textbook provides readers with a thorough grounding in the theory and ways the theory of practice architectures has been used in investigations of social and educational practice.

The Dynamics of Rules

Author : James G. March
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804739962
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book The Dynamics of Rules written by James G. March and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This quantitative study uses the history of Stanford University to develop speculations about the ways in which written rules change. It contributes both to a theory of rules and to theories of organizational decision-making, change, and learning.

Conflict Transformation and the Palestinians

Author : Alpaslan Ozerdem
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317213637
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Conflict Transformation and the Palestinians written by Alpaslan Ozerdem and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: first in-depth exploration of the challenge of transforming violent conflict under a military occupation features prominent Palestinian researchers and practitioners to provide a rigorous critique will be of interest to students of conflict resolution, peace studies, Middle Eastern politics, security tsudies and IR

How Does It Feel?

Author : Grant Maxwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692486269
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book How Does It Feel? written by Grant Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grant Maxwell examines the recorded music of popular culture with the same subtlety and care as he brings to the literary and philosophical texts of high culture. He seeks not just breadth of knowledge but coherence of insight; not just accumulation of knowledge but depth of understanding. Richard Tarnas, author of The Passion of the Western Mind Grant is a very distinguished cat. James Howard Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere The first three chapters, about each title character and their particular artistic genesis, are good cultural history and excellent pop music analysis (his explication of Dylan's rejection of modernity is one of the better summations available of this complicated figure). . . . The accounts provide fresh, rewarding perspectives on historical moments that have been theorized to death, if not outright mythologized, and Maxwell's historical blow-by-blow does great service as a patient, careful examination of each watershed. . . . Grasping at any threads that might bind high culture with low . . . this very polar tension generates the ultimately subtle magnetism of Maxwell's book. Thomas Conner, H-Net Reviews How Does It Feel? traces the significance of rock and roll through the early careers of Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan, drawing on some of the most profound philosophical ideas of the last few centuries. Through the artists' own words and intimate accounts, this study suggests that archaic modes of thought, including those associated with mysticism, alchemy, shamanism, and ecstatic spiritual practice, and even with often trivialized phenomena described by words like "magic," "destiny," and "prophecy," are vitally important for understanding how these musicians were able to catalyze the inception of an epochal revolution in human consciousness. From the recording of Presley's first hit at Sun studio to the Beatles' primal Hamburg initiation to Dylan's "transfiguration," this study shows how rock and roll has enacted the return of relational modes repressed since Descartes' equation of thought with human being in the seventeenth century. Although the privileging of rationality, materialism, and science has apparently been in service to the development of humanity's intellectual capacities, this "ascent of man" has come at the expense of intuitive, affective, and embodied ways of knowing. However, nothing can be repressed forever, and rock and roll appears to have been a compensatory reaction to the modern rationalization and disenchantment of culture. Through an engaging retelling of the familiar narratives from a novel philosophical perspective, How Does It Feel? illuminates how the renewed attention to bodily experience performed by these musicians has opened the door to even more deeply repressed premodern modes, mediating what appears to be the emergence of a new world view that integrates modern and premodern premises.

Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change

Author : Henry Bernstein
Publisher : Kumarian Press
ISBN 13 : 1565493567
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (654 download)

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Download or read book Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change written by Henry Bernstein and published by Kumarian Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Bernstein argues that class dynamics should be the starting point of any analysis of agrarian change. Providing an accessible introduction to agrarian political economy, he shows clearly how the argument for "bringing class back in" provides an alternative to inherited conceptions of the agrarian question. He also ably illustrates what is at stake in different ways of thinking about class dynamics and the effects of agrarian change in today's globalized world. CONTENTS: Introduction: The Political Economy of Agrarian Change. Production and Productivity. Origins of Early Development of Capitalism. Colonialism and Capitalism. Farming and Agriculture, Local and Global. Neoliberal Globalization and World Agriculture. Capitalist Agriculture and Non-Capitalist Farmers? Class Formation in the Countryside. Complexities of Class.

Gender Dynamics, Feminist Activism and Social Transformation in China

Author : Guoguang Wu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429959869
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Gender Dynamics, Feminist Activism and Social Transformation in China written by Guoguang Wu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the extent to which women have been initiators, mobilizers, and driving forces of social transformation in China. The book considers how conceptions of women’s roles have changed as China has moved from state socialism to engagement with capitalist globalization, examines the growth of women’s gender and sexual consciousness and social movements for women’s rights, including for marginalized social and sex/gender grouops, and discusses women’s roles in society-state interactions, including many forms of social activism, cultural events, educational innovations, and more. Overall, the book demonstrates that women have not simply been passive receivers of the consequences of the forces of global capitalism, but that they have had a profound, active impact on social transformation in China.