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Facing an organizational challenge?  Thinking about planning a partnering workshop?  Encountering a leadership dilemma?  Our Blog, White Papers and Books can help.

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Our Books

The Partnering Solution: A Powerful Strategy For Managers, Professionals, And Employees At All LevelsThe Partnering Solution (Career Press, 2005)
provides practical insight,
strategies and tools to improve team, project and partnering performance.  One reviewer comments:  “If you’re undertaking a complex project, you will benefit from this mind-opening book.  If you’re a client, especially one in a large, complex organization, this book has the potential to change the brainscape of the bureaucracy.  Beg, borrow or buy this book.” 

For details and ordering information, visit the book website www.thepartneringsolution.com


Partnering Manual for Design and Construction
Partnering Manual For Design and
Construction (NY: McGraw-Hill, 1996) provides detailed guidance to help readers plan and implement their own partnering workshop for complex design and construction projects.  A standard text for partnering, the book also describes the history and cost-benefit case for partnering.  For details click here.


Our previous, earlier books, still available on www.amazon.com include:

  • Food Co-Ops (Beacon Press, 1974).  This book chronicles the food co-ops movement of the 1960s- 1970s, provides information on how to start and run a successful co-op and explores the history of co-ops in the U.S. and England.
     
  • Jobs:  How People Create Their Own  (Beacon Press, 1977).  This book explores how people define meaningful self-employment situations and participative work organizations, work collaboratives.
     
  • Making Work (Plenum Press, 1980)  Co-authored with Lisa Peattie, professor at MIT Department of Urban Planning, this academic book examines the nature of highly satisfying work and job satisfaction.