Co-creative meetings foster invention and innovation, and therefore enable innovative developmental processes in an organizational and inter-organizational context, including strategy development, product development, human resource development, R&D, and trans-organizational projects. This book illustrates the difference between productive and innovative organizations and what that difference means for meetings taking place in such organizations, both from a conceptual and practical point of view. It provides managers, coaches, consultants and other professionals whose job it is to organize meetings with clear and action-oriented guidelines for the design of co-creative meetings, and also shows how to incorporate them through experiential learning.

Foreword.- 1 Introduction.- 2 What is a Co-creative Meeting?.- 3 Dysfunctional Meeting Culture.- 4 Interdependency of Meetings and Organizations.- 5 Maxims of the Co-creative Meeting.- 6 Phases and Roles.- 7 Designing for Co-creativity.- 8 Institutionalizing Co-creative Meetings.- 9 Structural Variations for Co-creative Meetings.- 10 Consensual Efficiency.- Index.