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Title: The Beauty of the Beast: Breathing New Life into Organizations by Geoffrey M. Bellman ISBN: 1576750930 Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Pub Pub. Date: April, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.6

Rating: 3
Summary: A Solid Effort!
Comment: Geoff Bellman's take on the Beauty and the Beast story is intended to help you breathe new life into stagnant, unworkable bureaucracies. While nicely written, this book fails to provide much in the way of hands-on technique that can be applied to real-life business. Nevertheless, we (...) recommend this book to anyone looking for an uncommonly inspirational viewpoint of modern-day organizations.

Rating: 5
Summary: Asking the Correct Questions
Comment: Bellman's book provides much more than suggestions about how to successfully implement organizational change. Its additional value includes a series of questions, that when answered will provide important insight into individual and organizational history, motivation and prospects for future success.

This is a very readable and thought-provoking book.

Rating: 5
Summary: Balanced Perspective -> Creative Tension -> Inspiring Vision
Comment: I recently finished Geoff Bellman's book The Beauty of the Beast, and I thoroughly enjoyed this very readable book! It offers a simple, realistic, and accepting perspective on organizations as they are, including their "warts, wrinkles, and wonder." It reveals a depth of understanding that is only gained through years of engagement with and thoughtful reflection on organizations . . . and on oneself.

The Beauty of the Beast guides the reader through his/her own balanced exploration of organizations and his/her relationship to them - an honest, eye-opening, often times humbling exploration. A potential outcome of this exploration is a much larger frame of reference in regards to organizations and one's life within them. Geoff teaches us of the need to hold "creative tension" between opposite truths, between competing needs and agendas; something that many disciplines are telling us is essential to our long-term success in today's complex world. But it is clear that Geoff is teaching from experience and from his own capacity for this work. He demonstrates his Eldership and his personal and professional maturity by modeling his ability to hold a balanced perspective towards each situation, to see the truth in all sides . . . even those sides that differ from his own.

And while this exploration takes the reader into the dark "authority-worshiping, talent-diminishing, heart-stomping" beastly aspects of organizations, it also unfolds a message of great hope - hope for the prospect of a meaningful, creative, value-adding individual life right now and for sowing the seeds for organizations generations hence. And to help us in this process he lays out a practical guide of inquiry and reflection for engaging a future that is still only a possibility - but is inspiring and powerful enough to evoke our best efforts now.

I think this is an important book. If even just a small percentage of people in an organization could develop a working relationship to the perspective Geoff offers, efforts towards organizational renewal would have a much higher success rate.

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