Harrison Owen's Book: Riding the Tiger

Written in 1991, Harrison Owen's 'Riding the Tiger' is a business write-up for entrepreneurs and management of corporations. 

The book broadens one's understanding of Open Space Technology, a concept explained in the book on how to do business in the new, emerging, and fast-transforming world. 

According to the blurb, the book tells the story of Spirit's journey in a chaotic world. Not just any spirit but the Spirit of your organization. 

The title 'Riding the Tiger' gives a mental picture of having an ability to ride something or have control after reading the book. 

The creature (tiger) here is used as the result of the author's experience in front of a small shop in Bombay, India. It has a relation with Lord Shiva mounted on a tiger, a symbol of an Indian religion, Hindu. 

Harrison Owen proposes in the book that the chaos we experience on an organizational, political, and personal level is in fact the potent force driving us all in search of a new and better way of being in organization, which he calls the InterActive Learning Organization. 

Published by Abbott Publishing in Maryland, 'Riding the Tiger' comes in a yellow cover with the title and other inscriptions on the front cover. It has creamy leaflets, 207 pages, and eight (8) chapters. 

The author, Harrison Owen, is an Anglican priest and president of H.H Owen and Company, whose clients range from an association of nine cities to major corporations in Europe, South America, India, Africa, and the United States of America. 

He was once a senior executive with the National Institutes of Health and the Veterans Administration. He has other publications in his name, including Open Space Technology, Expanding Our Now, Leadership Is, Spirit, Wave Rider, and When the Devil Dances.

Although the book is 33 years old, it still has valuable information for leaders, managers, and business owners in these decades. 

Reading 'Riding the Tiger' gives you knowledge on how to run an organization in chaos, how to lead transformation, how to create an interactive learning organization, the four states of organizational life, and how to make your corporation better. 

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Article source/reference: 

Harrison Owen (1991), Riding the Tiger: Doing Business in a Transforming World.