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GENARRATIVITY: Future Forming Practices for Building Better Legacies
Genarrativity, Future Forming Practices for Building Better Legacies is a magnetic memoir of an independent Dutch organization development (OD) consultant who, next to his already dynamic and purpose driven life, spent five years of PhD research into the concept of Organizational Generativity, aiming to contribute to an organization’s capability to create better futures for all its stakeholders. As a reader - manager, community leader, process consultant, OD scholar or PhD candidate - you are initiated into the unruly art of academic inquiry, and slightly become yourself a co-creator of the research being executed. Through personal cases, bits of peer-reviewed work, and new (un)frameworks, this book makes you understand and enhance the life of organizations and other communities in unexpected new ways. In a dialogical and immersive learning journey full of sudden surprises - as emergence requests - you are guided across a richness of sources, wisdom, reflections and practices urging you to learn and share the art of genarrativity yourself. Cees Hoogendijk not only promotes organizational and societal flourishing; he shows you the way.
“Countless times on back covers I’ve “Every manager should read this book.” This book is one of only a few where I believe this to be true. If you’re looking to proactively and intentionally create your organization’s future, instead of only passively preparing for whatever future may arrive, this book can be your guide.” Jeffrey Hicks, Ph.D. is a University of Texas Dallas, Assistant Professor, Organizations, Strategy and International Management; Academic Director, The Leadership Center
“So much to appreciate in this work; the head spins with ideas. The work thus performs that which it attempts to describe. Deep appreciation for your efforts, Cees, stimulating as ever…” Kenneth J. Gergen, Ph.D. is a founding member, President of the Taos Institute and Chair of the Board, and the Mustin Professor of Psychology at Swarthmore College.
"The way you, Cees, have been uncovering the depths of generativity in the previous chapters might actually demotivate, challenge some of us to explore this concept as a potential way to make our organizations more human as your story must be read as a living document. A cathedral to which you constantly add new elements and/or ornaments to make it even more beautiful." Joep C. de Jong is one of the early adopters of Appreciative Inquiry, and fulfilled various senior leadership roles in corporate high tech business and global ngo's.
"This book comprises a quest to new human approaches to the flourishing continuation of existing human systems. If I myself could give out a PhD, Cees would have obtained it already!"
Prof. Dr. Celeste P.M. Wilderom was until the end of 2022 full professor of Change Management & Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Behavioral, Management and Social Sciences at University of Twente.
From the "My book is an attempt to connect the organizational world of managers and professionals with the academic domain of researchers and professors. The former are rewarded for checking, talking and getting things delivered, the latter for researching, teaching and getting published. In between are the groups, teams and communities that deserve to be beneficiaries of both parties. Perhaps the specific group of people called PhD candidates may show a special interest in this book. I sincerely hope it will show up in class as well as on the CEO’s desk."
“Countless times on back covers I’ve “Every manager should read this book.” This book is one of only a few where I believe this to be true. If you’re looking to proactively and intentionally create your organization’s future, instead of only passively preparing for whatever future may arrive, this book can be your guide.” Jeffrey Hicks, Ph.D. is a University of Texas Dallas, Assistant Professor, Organizations, Strategy and International Management; Academic Director, The Leadership Center
“So much to appreciate in this work; the head spins with ideas. The work thus performs that which it attempts to describe. Deep appreciation for your efforts, Cees, stimulating as ever…” Kenneth J. Gergen, Ph.D. is a founding member, President of the Taos Institute and Chair of the Board, and the Mustin Professor of Psychology at Swarthmore College.
"The way you, Cees, have been uncovering the depths of generativity in the previous chapters might actually demotivate, challenge some of us to explore this concept as a potential way to make our organizations more human as your story must be read as a living document. A cathedral to which you constantly add new elements and/or ornaments to make it even more beautiful." Joep C. de Jong is one of the early adopters of Appreciative Inquiry, and fulfilled various senior leadership roles in corporate high tech business and global ngo's.
"This book comprises a quest to new human approaches to the flourishing continuation of existing human systems. If I myself could give out a PhD, Cees would have obtained it already!"
Prof. Dr. Celeste P.M. Wilderom was until the end of 2022 full professor of Change Management & Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Behavioral, Management and Social Sciences at University of Twente.
From the "My book is an attempt to connect the organizational world of managers and professionals with the academic domain of researchers and professors. The former are rewarded for checking, talking and getting things delivered, the latter for researching, teaching and getting published. In between are the groups, teams and communities that deserve to be beneficiaries of both parties. Perhaps the specific group of people called PhD candidates may show a special interest in this book. I sincerely hope it will show up in class as well as on the CEO’s desk."
260 pages, Hardcover
Published January 24, 2023
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