Character of Organizations: Using Personality Type in Organization Development, Updated Edition

Book Description
Just as people have personalities, Bridges explains organizations have character.


From the Publisher
"Today we can say that William bridges 'wrote the book' on organizational character just as we can say he 'wrote the book' on change. I have been using the insights in The Character of Organizations with assurance and great success for years. In this book, he offers helpful information on organizational character so that we can use it in a responsible, effective way for team building, career transition, leadership development, and change management. His writing is direct, crisp, and contemporary, with examples that speak to all of us in the field. Our clients who live in the 'real' world will find it a practical guide once they have learned about type and their organization's character. This book needs to be a part of your tool kit if you want to extend what you already know into more powerful applications for organizations."--from the Foreword by Sandra Krebs Hirsh This book is the foundation of a larger training program by Bridges and his associate Chris Edgelow, called Working with Organizational Character. It includes a facilitator's guide, participant workbook, and the Organizational Character Index.


About the Author
William Bridges, Ph.D., principal of William Bridges & Associates, has been a leader in the field of transition management since the publication of his best-selling book TRANSITIONS in 1980. A frequent presenter and keynote speaker, he has worked for over twenty years with organizations and individuals to help them manage more positively through change. Bridges and his firm have provided assessment, training, and consulting services to hundreds of organizations, including Amoco, AT&T, Intel, Kaiser Permanente, Motorola, and the U.S. Veterans Administration. Author also of MANAGING TRANSITIONS, JOBSHIFT, and CREATING YOU & CO., he has become one of the most widely read and quoted experts on what's happening to jobs in today's organizations. He has been listed by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top ten independent executive development presenters in America.


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The Character Of Organizations identifies sixteen types of organizational character using the framework of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator instrument and clarifies what people actually experience on the job. Utilizing "real world" corporate examples, William Bridges shows that an organization's character shapes how decisions are made and new ideas are received, how employees are treated and how change is accepted or rejected, and how such things affect company performance. Written in a lively, contemporary, and completely accessible style, and in a new edition enhanced with a foreword by Sandra Krebs Hirsh and a new preface by the author, The Character Of Organizations is highly recommended reading for anyone seeking to transform their own business to take advantage of their strengths and become aware of their weaknesses with which ever corporate character style they are employing.


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