Action Inquiry

Acknowledgments

We wish to thank the evening and international MBA students at Boston College (BC), the executive participants in BC’s Leadership for Change program, and the participants in our Harthill workshops—all of whom have so enthusiastically tested out the ideas in this book in their everyday work lives. As you will discover, many of their accounts of their experiments have been included, with their permission (and under fictional names), in the following pages as illustrations and as encouragements to engage in the process of action inquiry in your own daily activities.

We would also like to thank the various companies and their senior managements in Europe and America whose transformational stories appear in the pages that follow. ...