• "Leadership for the Common Good — tackling public problems in a shared-power world", by John M. Bryson and Barbara C. Crosby, is published by Jossey-Bass Publishers, 350 Sansome Street, San Francisco 94104, and is available on www.amazon.com.

John Bryson has also the author of "Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organisations", and "Creating and Implementing your Strategic Plan" (a Workbook), both are a part of part of the Jossey-Bass Public Administration Series.

• A paper by Fran Peavey and vivian Hutchinson on "Strategic Questioning" is available on the internet at www.jobsletter.org.nz/vivian/stratq97.htm

• Dale Hunter, Anne Bailey and Bill Taylor and their management training group Zenergy are an important national and international resource in teaching facilitation and collaborative skills.

They have three books in print — "The Art of Facilitation", "The Zen of Groups", "Co-operacy — a new way of being at work" and "The Essence of Facilitation" ... published in NZ by Tandem Press.

For more information email zenergy@xtra.co.nz