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Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges
Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges, is SoL's newest publication by C. Otto Scharmer. In it, the “U” process, first introduced in his previous work Presence, is expanded, deepened, and offered in comprehensive detail. The shift in awareness he documents allows us to connect to our best future possibility and realize it.
Read an excerpt and order your copy today!
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Inside Out: Stories and Methods for Generating Collective Will to Create the Future We Want
Inside Out, by Tracy Huston builds on U-theory by exploring “collective presencing” approaches for developing the personal, relational, and systemic conditions needed to support leaders in collaborating across their institutional boundaries to create the future they want. Drawing from her work in multi-stakeholder change initiatives, as well as from a variety of "ensemble" practices employed in the arts, Huston offers a rich mix of stories, cases, and practical methods for generating and sustaining whole system change, from the “inside-out."
Read an excerpt and order your copy today!
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Presence in Action: An Introduction to Theory U (DVD)
Presence in Action is a
DVD featuring C. Otto Scharmer's keynote address at the SoL Global Forum in Vienna, 2005. The complex challenges facing today’s leaders require a new form of learning, one that connects us to the emerging future. In this presentation, Otto Scharmer introduces the social technology of presencing to management and management science.
View an excerpt and order your dvd today!
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Profit for Life: How Capitalism Excels
This book, based on the analytic model that companies are living systems (de Geus) and operate within larger living systems (Senge), proves that living assets, rather than capital assets, are the true source of corporate energy and innovation. Companies that steward living assets have natural advantages, do better financially, and live longer.
Read an excerpt and order your copy today!
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Learning for Sustainability
Learning for Sustainability, by Peter Senge, Joe Laur, Sara Schley and Bryan Smith has just been released by SoL. Featuring the work of a number of members of the SoL Sustainability Consortium, this new SoL resource was written as a vehicle for sparking conversation and encouraging dialogue about how to develop the confidence and capabilities to create a world we will be proud to leave our grandchildren.
The collection of twelve articles and exercises is based on the Fifth Discipline fieldbook format, and is intended for leaders at all levels, engaged in all types of enterprises, local and global. 110 pages; $15.
Order Learning for Sustainability.
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The Fifth Discipline, Revised Edition
The new edition of the classic work by Peter Senge features over 100 pages of new material based on interviews with dozens of SoL practitioners. Examining the successes and challenges of a broad array of projects, the six new chapters in Part IV outline the "state of the art" of organizational learning, and present 8 strategies to employ in service of that art. For bulk orders, please contact publications@solonline.org.
Visit www.solonline.org/FifthDiscipline/ for more information.
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Reflections, The SoL Journal
Reflections is now published electronically and supplemented by a printed year-end compilation. Focused on the issues of most interest to the SoL community,
Reflections is available as a benefit of membership and by subscription. The Reflections website provides subscribers with easy access to published materials (including all previous issues) and the opportunity to engage in give and take with authors and other readers through an interactive commenting system. Learn more about
Reflections at
www.reflections.solonline.org
Order Reflections issues and articles at the SoL store.
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Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Society, and Organizations
In August 2005, Doubleday, publishers of
The Fifth Discipline and
The Fifth Discipline fieldbooks, released a new edition of
Presence. Appearing with a new subtitle and a SoL imprint,
Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society represents SoL's first venture into co-publishing.
Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future, is the original 2004 SoL edition. Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society is the 2005 Doubleday/SoL edition. Click here to read about how these books differ.
Presence is an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations held over a year and a half, organizational learning pioneers Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers explored the nature of transformational change—how it arises, and the fresh possibilities it offers a world dangerously out of balance. The book introduces the idea of “presence”—a concept borrowed from the natural world that the whole is entirely present in any of its parts—to the worlds of business, education, government, and leadership. Too often, the authors found, we remain stuck in old patterns of seeing and acting. By encouraging deeper levels of learning, we create an awareness of the larger whole, leading to actions that can help to shape its evolution and our future.
Orders placed through this website include a free downloadable copy of The Presence Workbook, a 40-page companion guide to Presence. The workbook is also available for purchase.
Queries about translations can be sent to aklebanoff@rosettsabooks.com; for bulk orders contact publications@solonline.org.
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