Blair H Sheppard – författare

The only way to fix our world is to reinvent it.We stand in the crosshairs of four calamitous trends, each of which has historically led to tremendous societal disruption and whose combined force now threatens to permanently alter life as we know it: climate change, demographic shifts, fracturing communities, and technological disruption. The only way that humanity can survive and thrive through this tidal wave of change is to rethink our fundamental assumptions of how to run the world.Drawing on decades of experience in academia, global consulting, and leadership, author Blair H. Sheppard presents a practical blueprint for systemic reinvention. This book addresses what we must do, collectively and individually, to foster change that builds the type of world we all want to live in, galvanizing every organization, town, city, country, and person to think differently about preparing for the future. Grounded in real-world examples, personal stories, and a deep understanding of the trends disrupting and reshaping our lives, Reinventing the World provides solutions and offers hope for our collective future.An urgent call to action for businesses, industries, world leaders, and individuals alike, this book describes the imperative changes we must adopt now if we want to improve our lives and the world we live in for the future.

This volume of "Research on Negotiation in Organizations" focuses on three new and emerging areas in the domain of negotiation and conflict within organizations. In the first section, the problem of 'deviance' within organizations is approached from a conflict and justice perspective. Earlier research attention to these issues tended to treat deviance largely as a problem created by selected individuals who did not adapt to the organization, rather than as a systemic problem created by certain organizational conditions. By seeing deviant behavior in organizations as a possible response to unfair treatment, and by employing conflict management concepts to explain how individuals respond to organizational constraints and pressures, the papers in this section extend the work on conflict and justice to a new, rich, and largely unexplored domain. The second section of this volume addresses an increasingly important challenge in our world - the effective management of environmental conflict; the authors demonstrate factors contributing to the intractability of environmental disputes, and the importance of perceptions of fairness in attaining conflict resolution. The third and final section offers diverse but important papers in the application of conflict and negotiation to the international environment, including an examination of conflict in a Chinese cultural context, and commentary on the role of power differences in conflict management and negotiation.

As we head into the new millennium, we are witnessing a growing and heightened interest among organizational scholars on the topics of conflict and negotiation. New research questions are being identified, while new theory is being applied to "old" questions. The result is exciting research that has organizational and social relevance. The papers in this volume, which grew out of the eighth biannual Conference on Negotiation in Organizations, are representative of the provocative and "cutting edge" theory and research emerging in the area of conflict and negotiation.

As we head into the new millennium, we are witnessing a growing and heightened interest among organizational scholars on the topics of conflict and negotiation. New research questions are being identified, while new theory is being applied to old questions. The result is exciting research that has organizational and social relevance. The papers in this volume, which grew out of the eighth biannual Conference on Negotiation in Organizations, are representative of the provocative and cutting edge theory and research emerging in the area of conflict and negotiation.