Open Enrollment Programs:

  • June 22-27, 2008: Creating Productive Conversations with Chris Argyris, Wellesley, MA

  • October 27-29, 2008: Leadership for Drug Development Teams, Boston, MA. Sponsored by the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development

  • September 21-24, 2008: Making Conversations Work, Wellesley, MA

  • September 21-24, 2008: Creating Productive Conversations II, Advanced Practice, Wellesley, MA

  • Featured Items

    Full text of the book, Action Science: Concepts, Methods, and Skills for Research and Intervention, by Chris Argyris, Robert Putnam, and Diana McLain Smith.

    Action Design co-founder Diana McLain Smith and Amy Edmondson of Harvard Business School have published an article, "Too Hot To Handle? How To Manage Relationship Conflict" in the Fall 2006 issue of California Management Review.

    Hot off the press! Action Design colleague William Noonan has just published the book, Discussing the Undiscussable: A Guide to Overcoming Defensive Routines in the Workplace. It is published by Jossey-Bass and is available on Amazon. Bill will be a featured presenter at our "Creating Productive Conversations" program in June 2008.

    "Reflective Conversation: Art and Possibility," a talk by Robert Putnam in 1996, has been reissued on DVD as a Classic Presentation from the Pegasus Conference. It can be ordered from Pegasus Communications, order number V9623D.


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