Richard (Dick) Axelrod co founded the Axelrod Group, Inc., a consulting firm that pioneered the use of employee involvement to effect large-scale organizational change. He now brings more than thirty-five years of consulting and teaching experience to this work, with clients including Boeing, Chicago Public Schools, Calgary Health Authority, Coca-Cola, Harley Davidson, Hewlett-Packard, and the UK’s National Health Service. Dick is faculty in Columbia University’s Principles and Practices in Organization Development and the University of Chicago’s Leadership Arts Program.
Dick is a founding member of the Berrett-Koehler Authors Cooperative. He authored the award-winning Terms of Engagement: New Ways of Leading and Changing Organizations, andRichard (Dick) Axelrod co founded the Axelrod Group, Inc., a consulting firm that pioneered the use of employee involvement to effect large-scale organizational change. He now brings more than thirty-five years of consulting and teaching experience to this work, with clients including Boeing, Chicago Public Schools, Calgary Health Authority, Coca-Cola, Harley Davidson, Hewlett-Packard, and the UK’s National Health Service. Dick is faculty in Columbia University’s Principles and Practices in Organization Development and the University of Chicago’s Leadership Arts Program.
Dick is a founding member of the Berrett-Koehler Authors Cooperative. He authored the award-winning Terms of Engagement: New Ways of Leading and Changing Organizations, and co-authored You Don’t Have to Do It Alone: How to Involve Others to Get Things Done, which the New York Times called “the best of the current crop of books on this subject.” Dick is the recipient of the Organization Development Network’s Lifetime Achievement Award and Best Teacher Award from the University of Chicago’s Graham School of Liberal and Professional Studies....more
There is an inner and an outer world. Your inner world is composed of your thoughts, feelings, wants, and emotions. This inner landscape provides us with one type of information. The outer world is the environment in which we exist. It provides us with another type of information.
The outer world is what we see when we look outward and see the people, places, things that exist on Earth and beyond.