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""". . . A BOLD, INNOVATIVE THEORY OF ORGANIZATION AND CONSULTING PRACTICE."" -Patricia McLagan, CEO, McLagan International, Inc., author of The Shadow Side of Power Out of The Workplace Trap is a revolutionary way to understand work and the workplace-both today's and tomorrow's. It addresses how to powerfully help organizations fulfill their potential and help people be and feel more fulfilled at work. Based on years of Organization Development study and practice, this is the first book to apply the pioneering psychiatrist and scientist Wilhelm Reich's energetic understanding of life-of energy flow, blockage and intervention that dissolves the blockages-to understand and improve the life of organizations. Out of The Workplace Trap will help organizational scholars, change consultants, and others seeking further knowledge and capability to address the widespread, entrenched difficulties of organizations as they actually function. Such difficulties commonly consume an organization's inherent energies where its work would otherwise be more naturally effective, robust and humanly fulfilling. The book addresses the roots of toxicity in the workplace and the pervasive problem of human unhappiness at work-then shines a light on the way out for their constructive resolution across an enterprise. Readers will find ""a grand theory"" of organizations and a practical consulting method of intervening to address how they are blocked, how they became so, and to support their revitalization. While the book does not offer easy answers or a ""cookbook"" of solutions, readers will learn the basis for restoring the fuller functioning of our work institutions and the greater pleasure and achievement people can experience at work, individually and together. Six organization character types, ranging from the healthy productive workplace to those that are chronically stuck, are described. Their descriptions include strategic pathways and major techniques for their support and, when conditions permit, for their radical renewal. The principles are illustrated by numerous case studies and their results drawn from the author's experience, along with other examples from the business and social worlds. The book concludes by exploring the relevance this approach holds for rehumanizing work in the network enterprise era and for better understanding the dynamics of wider social change."

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An erudite study of Reich's corpus of work connected to decades of consulting experience. . . shows how we can attend to the driving needs of the stuck organization and help it become what Goldberg calls 'the work democratic organization.' -Larry Hirschhorn, Co-founder, International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations A terrific book. . . With clarity and passion. . . a must-read for anyone seeking organization improvement. -Harvey A. Hornstein, Professor Emeritus, Social and Organizational Psychology, Columbia University Goldberg's work makes me pause in celebration of what I think I know. . . offers the promise of addressing the very heart of organizational troubles and renewal. -Geoff Bellman, author of The Consultant's Calling and Extraordinary Groups A rare, fresh perspective on Organization Development (OD). . . fascinating. . . an important addition to organizational theory and practice. -Gilmore Crosby, Social Scientist, author of Planned Change and Diversity Without Dogma Detailed illustrations of emotional dynamics and Goldberg's reflective deliberations on when and how to act-or, more importantly, not to-to intervene in them, are gems for any practitioner. -Karen Locke, Pat and Margaret Walsh Professor in Leadership and Ethics, Mason School of Business, College of William & Mary, author of Grounded Theory in Management Research In my 45-year career as a practitioner in the field of OD I have never met an individual more knowledgeable than Martin Goldberg about the deep conceptual foundations of the craft of intervention. -Tony Petrella (1935-2018), Co-founder and Managing Partner, Block Petrella Weisbord

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Martin Goldberg has been in the Organization Development field for over thirty-five years, as a partner and practice leader in change solutions for a major global consulting firm, and in private practice since 2010. He serves on the editorial board for the Organization Development Review and teaches an annual Organization Behavior seminar at Pepperdine University. He has written and published widely on theory and practice.

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