Learning to Fly – And Other Life Lessons
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Research in Organizational Change and Development
ISBN: 978-1-78714-436-1, eISBN: 978-1-78714-435-4
Publication date: 28 June 2017
Abstract
This chapter has six sections. I summarize and refine key themes I explored at length during 25 years in three editions of Productive Workplaces. In Flying Lessons section, I describe how the invention of the airplane changed life on earth, not least my own. In Life Lessons section, I discuss how flying influenced my consulting career. In Myths section, I describe beliefs that I abandoned as I learned my trade. In The Future Never Comes section, I explore what it means to encounter the future as having already arrived. In Afterthoughts section, I sum up what learning to fly has to do with learning Organization Development consulting. The section Postscript contains excerpts from my dialogue with Bill Pasmore, a colleague who also flew airplanes and sought to improve workplaces.
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Citation
Weisbord, M. (2017), "Learning to Fly – And Other Life Lessons
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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