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Productive Workplaces, 25th Anniversary Edition, traces the origins of and validates “getting the whole system in the room,” a principle that has influenced large scale projects ever since the 1987 edition. The book was voted one of the five most influential books in the field by theOrganization Development Network in 2004. It provides a model, guidelines, and successful methods for improving organizations under conditions of nonstop change. | 25th Anniversary 3rd Edition PRODUCTIVE WORKPLACES p Dignity Meaning and Community in the X_ 21st Century MARVIN WEISBORD THE CLASSIC WORK REVISED AND EXPANDED I have been a fan of Marv Weisbord s for years. His thoughts and understanding of how people and organizations accomplish work improves with each update of Productive Workplaces. He is a master of this subject and most importantly he helps us practice what he teaches. Richard G. Haworth Chairman Emeritus HAWORTH INC. Weisbord has been a major voice in the theory and practice of organization development OD since the early 1970s. This book is a wonderful history and reinterpretation of many of the events schools of thought and controversies that have punctuated the field from its beginnings. It should be required reading for every organization behavior and development scholar. Among its many virtues the book is beautifully written. Peter Vaill Senior Scholar and Emeritus Professor of Management Antioch University . Program in Leadership and Change author of Learning as a Way of Being Strategies for Survival in a World of Permanent White Water and Spirited Leading and Learning Minneapolis MN USA . During my thirty-three-year career I have been involved in publishing well over one thousand books. Productive Workplaces is certainly among the top five most influential in terms of its impact on the organizations in which I worked as well as on my personal leadership management concepts and practices. Steven Piersanti President and Publisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc. San Francisco CA USA formerly president Jossey-Bass Publishers