Articles

Hurley, T. and Brown, J. (2009) ‘Conversational Leadership: Thinking Together for a Change’

Suchman, A. (2002) ‘An Introduction to Complex Responsive Processes: Theory and Implications fo Organizational Change Processes’

Books

Bushe G, and Marshak R., Eds. (2015) Dialogic Organization Development: The Theory and Practice of Transformational Change – an excellent resource with chapters by different practitioners

Bushe, G. (2020) The Dynamics of Generative Change – a very accessible 100 page book

Heifetz, R. (2002) Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading

Kaner, S. (2014) The Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making

McChrystal, S. (2015) Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

Scarlett, H. (2016) Neuroscience for Organizational Change

Shaw, P. (1996) Changing Conversations in Organizations: A Complexity Approach to Change

Stacey, R. (2015) Strategic Management and Organizational Dynamics

Stanfield, R.B. (2000) The Art of Focused Conversation: 100 Ways to Access Group Wisdom in the Workplace

Websites

conversational-leadership.net – An online blook by David Gurteen. This is a great place to start exploring conversational leadership as it contains a lot of links to other practitioners and scholars who are writing about this topic.

Bushe and Marshak Institute – Gervase Bushe and Robert Marshak have been at the forefront of pioneering dialogic organisation development. The BMI Series in Dialogic Organization Development offers this free Companion Booklet.

Open Space Technology – this is a tool we discuss in Season 1, Episode 4.