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Making the case for a developmental perspective
Susanne Cook-Greuter (2004) Industrial and Commercial Training, vol 36 6&7
Introduces the concept of action-logics as increasingly complex and flexible systems of meaning-making to the management field. Outlines the major shift from viewing people as different types to also considering differences in the integration of their meaning-making capacity that allows them to flexibly and successfully tailor their interactions to the differing needs of those they work with.

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Intervening into Personal & Organisational Systems
by Powerfully Leading & Wisely Managing
Julian Simcox (2005) Presented at W. Edwards Deming Research Institute, New York
Describes an on-going inquiry into the polarities and tensions between the processes of managing and leading - and how the tension can be leveraged as the basis for organisation-wide interventions.

.Written from the perspective of a practicing executive coach, and as a retrospective on the work of W. Edwards Deming, the paper describes just what it is that a few extraordinary manager /leaders seem to possess that enables them to simultaneously manage and lead transformation - first of themselves and then of their organisations. It culminates in a comparison of ‘conventional’ organisations, and ‘post-conventional’ (learning) organisations like Toyota in which Deming’s influence continues to be profound.

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Doing Co-operative Inquiry
Peter Reason ( in Jonathan Smith (Ed.), Qualitative Psychology: A Practical Guide to Methods. London: Sage Publications.
Explores the complex interplay between the logic of inquiry and the process of the human group (and this includes a team or work group in an organisation). Reason argues passionately, as always, for participatory inquiry that acknowledges and wrestles with all action, no matter how small, being connected to a wider world and so demanding an attention to the quality and purpose of our action.

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Choice and Quality in Action Research Practice
Peter Reason (forthcoming) Journal of Management Inquiry.
(developed from Keynote Address, World Congress of Participatory Action Research, Pretoria, South Africa, September 2003)
Explores the nature of quality in action research practice (action learning, real-time inquiry and so on). Argues that action research is characteristically full of choices and that quality in inquiry comes from awareness of and transparency about the choices available at each stage of the inquiry.

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