Useful Books, Articles and Publications…
The Collaborative Leadership Fieldbook: A Guide for Citizens and Civic Leaders
David Chrislip
How to Make Collaboration Work: Powerful Ways to Build Consensus, Solve Problems, and Make Decisions
David Straus
The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace
John Paul Lederach
Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey Into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now
Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? There used to be two teams in every workplace: mgmt & labor. Now there's a third: the linchpin
Seth Godin
Seed to Harvest: Four novels that take you on a wondrous odyssey from mythic primoridal past to a fantastic far future
Octavia E. Butler
Creating a Culture of Collaboration: The International Association of Facilitators Handbook
Sandy Schuman
Leveraging Diversity and Building Power
Cynthia Silva Parker, Linda N. Guinee, and Andrea Nagel
Interaction Institute for Social Change
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Values and Guiding Principles for Addressing Issues of Race, Class and Power in Capacity Building Work
Summarized by Cynthia Silva Parker
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Building Civic Leadership in Portland, Maine
Thomas J. Rice, PhD, Chairman, Interaction Institute for Social Change
Portland’s story is one that strongly supports the hypothesis, “no pain, no gain.” Visiting Portland in the late 1970’s was to witness a case study in stagnation. Along with several other Northeastern cities, it was being written off by urban “lifecycle” theorists as a city that had outlived its usefulness: it was seen as beyond hope by the pundits, best left to fade away.
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When a Grantmaker is a Facilitative Leader
Curtis Ogden, Senior Associate for IMPACT: An e-newsletter published by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO), December 2006
What makes a facilitative leader of social change? And how can grantmakers model such leadership?
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Interaction Associatesfounded IISC in 1993 as an expression of its commitment to social change and as a way of bringing its collaborative methodologies into the social sector. IA literally wrote the books on group process, facilitation, and building collaborative cultures:How to Make Meetings Workby our co-founders David Straus and Michael Doyle; andHow to Make Collaboration Workby David Straus. IA’s legacy of innovation continues today in the development of collaborative approaches to coaching, leadership and team development, and change management.