(high level content)INTENTIONNAVIGATIONPART ZERO 02004-02021 Giving Life to HumanizationPREFACE & PRE-PHASEPREMISES & PROMISESPART ONE 02017-02019 In Search of GenerativityLIFE CHANGESGENERATIVITYTO FRAME OR NOT TO FRAMEFIRST APPENDIX TO PART ONESECOND APPENDIX TO PART ONEPART TWO 02019-02021 Processual GenerativityDIALOGIC TEAS WITH MY PROFESSORTHE DRILL OF PRAGADEMIC WRITINGHOW TO ASSESS A GENERATIVE PROCESSPART THREE 02019-20-21-22 Organizational GenerativityGETTING INTO PART THREECONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK ORGANIZATIONAL GENERATIVITYFUTURE FORMING INQUIRY, A WELCOME RESEARCH PRACTICEORGANIZATIONAL GENERATIVITY PLAUSIBLE? DISCOVER AND DREAMPART FOUR 02022-22020 Genarrativity as a PracticeWORKING OUT (OF) THE FRAMESGENARRATIVE INSPIRATORS(P)REFLECTIONS BY MY CO-MAKERSWHEN AI MEETS AI …LET’S GET GENARRATIVEENDNOTE & ANDNOTEIn unexpected new ways, based on scientific research, Genarrative makes you understand and promote generativity as future forming capacity of organizations and other communities.How do organizations and communities stay alive?Pragademic memoir of an emerging research journeyGenarrative is a magnetic memoir of an independent Dutch organization development (OD) consultant who, next to his already dynamic and purpose driven life, spent five years of PhD research into the concept of Organizational Generativity, aiming to contribute to an organization’s capability to create better futures for all its stakeholders. As a reader – manager, community leader, process consultant, OD scholar or PhD candidate – you are initiated into the unruly art of academic inquiry, and slightly become yourself a co-creator of the research being executed. Through personal cases, bits of peer-reviewed work, and new (un)frameworks, this book makes you understand and enhance the life of organizations and other communities in unexpected new ways. In a dialogical and immersive learning journey full of sudden surprises – as emergence requests – you are guided across a richness of sources, wisdom, reflections and practices urging you to learn and share the art of genarrativity yourself. Cees Hoogendijk not only promotes organizational and societal flourishing; he shows you the way. "Actually, my research journey into the generative qualities of organizations and communities took much longer than five years and covers a life span of personal and professional experiences of which I share the highlights in Genarrative. You will be inspired by my three frameworks – as practical as they can be – connecting generativity to language, processes and social entities. Moreover, you will enjoy engaging in the ongoing process of future forming inquiry yourself, for which Genarrative provides tools and guiding. In essence, generativity is the quality to give life and to create healthy futures. It is my sincere hope that my book generates like-minded, actionable ‘genarrators’." (Cees Hoogendijk) www.ceeshoogendijk.com“Countless times on back covers I’ve read: 'Every manager should read this book.' This book is one of only a few where I believe this to be true. If you’re looking to proactively and intentionally create your organization’s future, instead of only passively preparing for whatever future may arrive, this book can be your guide.” Jeffrey Hicks, Ph.D. is a University of Texas Dallas, Assistant Professor, Organizations, Strategy and International Management; Academic Director, The Leadership Center“So much to appreciate in this work; the head spins with ideas. The work thus performs that which it attempts to describe. Deep appreciation for your efforts, Cees, stimulating as ever…” Kenneth J. Gergen, Ph.D. is a founding member, President of the Taos Institute and Chair of the Board, and the Mustin Professor of Psychology at Swarthmore College."The way you, Cees, have been uncovering the depths of generativity in the previous chapters might actually demotivate, challenge some of us to explore this concept as a potential way to make our organizations more human as your story must be read as a living document. A cathedral to which you constantly add new elements and/or ornaments to make it even more beautiful." Joep C. de Jong is one of the early adopters of Appreciative Inquiry, and fulfilled various senior leadership roles in corporate high tech business and global ngos."This book comprises a quest to new human approaches to the flourishing continuation of existing human systems. If I myself could give out a PhD, Cees would have obtained it already!" Prof. Dr. Celeste P.M. Wilderom, full professor of Change Management & Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Behavioral, Management and Social Sciences at University of Twente.