Systems and Meaning

Gitte Haslebo is a psychological consultant specialising in consultancy assignments and training courses for managers and consultants. With inspiration from systemic, appreciative and narrative approaches, Gitte uses customized methods for organizational development, with particular attention to relational ethics in the workplace. She has authored and co-authored a large number of books and articles about leadership and organizational development. Gitte is also an Associate at the TAOS Institute, which is a community of social constructionist scholars and practitioners from all parts of the world. Kit Sanne Nielsen is an organizational psychologist, specialist and author, as well as owner and CEO of an international leadership consultancy firm with operations in such culturally diverse locations as Denmark, South Africa and Greenland. She specialises in a narrative psychological and systemic approach to leadership and organizational development, as well as the development of systems-based team coaching methods. As an authority in her field, she has authored and co-authored a wide range of books and articles about leadership, coaching and organizational development.

Editors’ Foreword -- Preface -- Organizational consultation in a systemic perspective -- Organizational consultation and learning -- “Assess our manager and expose his shortcomings”: a consultation in a private company -- “Free us from the past!”: a consultation in a municipality -- Key concepts in systemic thinking -- The consultant’s cognitive processes in practice: when two consultants work together -- The consultant’s cognitive processes in practice: receiving supervision -- Epilogue