Library: Geoffrey Bellman's Writings
Geoff has written six books and published dozens of articles:
Books by Geoffrey Bellman
Extraordinary Groups: How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results (co-author, Kathleen Ryan)
In this important book, Geoffrey Bellman and Kathleen Ryan reveal that people instinctively sense when a group experience is something special, something different from the ordinary, something that surpasses their expectations in a positive, remarkable, and hard-to-describe way. These are extraordinary groups that achieve outstanding results. More about this book.
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The Consultant's Calling: Bringing Who You Are to What You Do
Revised and updated for consulting in the twenty-first century, this new edition is for anyone who wants to know what consulting is really like as a career, as a living, and as a life. At once practical and personal, this book is for all types of consultants, all those who work with consultants, and all those who dream of being consultants.
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Getting Things Done When You Are Not In Charge
You are not in charge and you want to make a difference: that is the dilemma. You are searching for ways to contribute through the work you do and gain some personal satisfaction in the process. This book can help you do just that. In this new edition of his classic book, Geoff Bellman shows readers how to make things happen in any organization regardless of their formal position.
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The Beauty of The Beast: Breathing New Life into Organizations
The ways we go about changing organizations usually don't work. Our underlying assumptions predetermine the results and preclude the broad success we so desperately seek. This book helps people see their daily work in a new and larger perspective. It helps them embrace the real organizational world while they work at renewing it.
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Your Signature Path: Gaining New Perspectives on Life and Work
This is a book for individuals who are struggling with, celebrating, defining, or rethinking their life's direction. In the midst of great changes in the workplace, our society, our communities, and the family, these people are considering what their lives are about. Bellman offers a fresh, empowering vision of the individual's place in the world; he explores ways which help your life and work make a positive difference.
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The Quest for Staff Leadership
Received the National Book Award from The Society for Human Resource Management.
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Articles by Geoffrey Bellman
Geoff has posted many articles on Scribd (see the complete article list) including the following:
- Meeting the New Year—with Resolution - What you might do at the new year—or any time to refocus yourself.
- Power—Getting It and Using It Well - We all have power, but we need to know it to use it.
- Six Keys to Renewing Organizations - Changing organizations is complicated, but these six ideas could be useful.
- On Seventy Days a Year - Imagine choosing to work much less than you currently do. Here are some of the implications.
- You Are Not in Charge - You are not in charge: Deal with it! And neither are all those other people who think they are in charge.
- Twenty Thoughts on Dealing with Management - Maybe you have more power than you imagine, and maybe they need it.
- A Ten Step Consulting Process - What actually happens when we consultants work with a client? These ten steps sort out the significant actions and learning points. A variation on action research, these steps are filled with tip . . .
- Questions Useful in Exploring Change - A long and useful list of questions designed to help you get beyond your favorites.
- The Consultant as Leader - An alternative to the view of consultant as facilitator or expert.
- Sixty Bits of Wisdom - A short, useful list of wisdom accumulated over sixty years of life and work.
- Renewing Large Organizations - How do we go about creating change?
- What Keeps Clients Coming Back - How do experienced consultants keep their clients?
- If I Knew Then What I Know Now - Looking back on forty years of Organization Development consulting.
- Dead Men Don't Use Flip Charts - Or: 17 Things You Can Do with a Flip Chart That You Can't Do with a Carp.
- The Realities of Renewing Organizations - Changing organizations is much more difficult than we consultants and our clients often imagine. Here are some reasons why.
- Loving and Hating Organizations - Helps us explore our real feelins about organizations.
- Five Signs of Life in Work Groups - Teams must be vital, enlivened, to work. Here's what to look for.
- Creating Excitement in Work Groups - Five tips on what to look for as you lean into an exciting future tigether.