Theory U :Leading from the Future as It Emerges

Publication subTitle :Leading from the Future as It Emerges

Author: Scharmer C. Otto  

Publisher: Berrett Koehler‎

Publication year: 2016

E-ISBN: 9781626567993

Subject: K02 social development theory

Keyword: 经济计划与管理

Language: ENG

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Access the deepest source of inspiration and vision

We live in a time of massive institutional failure that manifests in the form of three major divides: the ecological, the social, and the spiritual. Addressing these challenges requires a new consciousness and collective leadership capacity. In this groundbreaking book, Otto Scharmer invites us to see the world in new ways and in so doing discover a revolutionary approach to learning and leadership.

In most large systems today, we collectively create results that no one wants. What keeps us stuck in such patterns of the past? It's our blind spot, that is, our lack of awareness of the inner place from which our attention and intention originate. By moving through Scharmer's U process, we consciously access the blind spot and learn to connect to our authentic Self—the deepest source of knowledge and inspiration.
Theory U offers a rich diversity of compelling stories, examples, exercises, and practices that allow leaders, organizations, and larger systems to cosense and coshape the future that is wanting to emerge.

This second edition features a new preface in which Scharmer identifies five transformational trends and describes U process case stories around the world. There are also eight color drawings by Kelvy Bird that capture U journey applications and illustrate the concep

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Bumping into Our Blind Spot

Chapter 1 Facing the Fire

Chapter 2 The Journey to “U”

Chapter 3 Fourfold Learning and Change

Chapter 4 Organizational Complexity

Chapter 5 Shifts in Society

Chapter 6 Philosophical Grounding

Chapter 7 On the Threshold

Part II: Entering the U Field

Chapter 8 Downloading

Chapter 9 Seeing

Chapter 10 Sensing

Chapter 11 Presencing

Chapter 12 Crystallizing

Chapter 13 Prototyping

Chapter 14 Performing

Part III: Presencing: A Social Technology for Profound Innovation and Change

Chapter 15 The Grammar of the Social Field

Chapter 16 Individual Actions

Chapter 17 Conversational Actions

Chapter 18 Organizational Actions

Chapter 19 Global Actions

Chapter 20 Catching Social Reality Creation in Flight

Chapter 21 Principles and Practices of Presencing

Epilogue: u.school: Awareness Based Systems Change

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