Despite being a game-changer in powering human growth, discovery remains a mystery. How can it produce ahas and insights to meet the challenge of new realities and reimagine organizational management?

This book lays out a process of inquiry that drives belief change and leads to discoveries, empowering leaders, groups, and the organization with a powerful tool for navigating an uncertain future. Discovery lights the intellectual spark for every breakthrough in science, technology, pharmaceuticals, and more—but fear and inertia can harden beliefs and practices that no longer fit the new realities. To counter this, discovery can be cultivated rather than suppressed, using a new, three-phase process, a management practice that consistently generates the ahas and insights that underpin all transformation. Based on years of research and real-world observation, this book inspires and equips leaders at all levels to champion this discovery process and fuel genuine, sustained change in their communities and organizations.

Accompanied by a website that includes proprietary tools, audio and video clips, and a downloadable workbook, this book is an enriching resource for current and aspiring leaders and managers across industries, as well as management consultants, HR professionals, corporate educators, and business students.

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Karen Golden-Biddle is an organizational ethnographer whose award-winning research illuminates the connection between discovery and organizational change. She is committed to supporting leaders’ efforts to cultivate discovery as a conscious practice. Karen’s work has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed publications, including the Academy of Management Journal and Organization Science. She received her PhD and MBA from Case Western Reserve University and BA from Denison University. Karen is Professor of Management and Organizations, emerita, Questrom School of Business at Boston University, and Fellow of the Academy of Management.