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- Why change is essential
- How you and your organization can change
- What profound change demands of you
Why you should read Theory U
This is an ambitious book. Leadership consultant and lecturer C. Otto Scharmer provides a theoretical framework for understanding the changes society faces and provides suggestions for institutional and personal transformation. Scharmer explains his process and its goals obsessively, even repetitively, walking you through multidisciplinary examples from his own experience, history and economics. He provides diagrams and breaks down his theories into numbered steps and rules. Still, you may find the book challenging, mainly because Scharmer is dealing with such large issues, but also because his ideas and vocabulary can get mystical. This book requires time and patience aplenty, but if you are open to such reflections, it could be for you. getAbstract recommends it to managers interested in personal change, organizational culture and futurism.
About the Author
C. Otto Scharmer is the founding chair of the Presencing Institute, a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the co-author of Presence.
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| Darci Zingrebe | March 1, 2011 |
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I am very excited about this "holistic" view regarding society in change. It appears to contain a depth of psychological/socialogy relativity to other multidisciplinary fields. I am inspired to read the book in its entirety - along with Miohio Kaku's "Physics of the Impossible". |
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