Readings

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Arthur, W. Brian. "Conversation with W. Brian Arthur: Coming from Your Inner Self." 2001.

Interview by C. O. Scharmer and Joseph Jaworski, Xerox Parc, Palo Alto, California, April 16, 1999. www.dialogonleadership.org

Fritjof, Capra. In The Hidden Connections. New York: Doubleday, 2002.

Castells, Manuel. In End of Millennium. Oxford, UK, and Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1998.

Global Institute for Responsible Leadership. 2003. Background paper. http://www.mckinsey.com/ideas/mgi/index.asp

Handy, Charles. "What's a Business for?" Harvard Business Review (December 2002): 49-55.

Jaworski, Joseph. In Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership. SanFrancisco: Berret-Koehler, 1996.

Kahane, Adam. "How to Change the World: Lessons for Entreprneurs form Activists." Relfections Vol. 2, No. 3 (2001): 16-26.

Käufer, K., C. O. Scharmer, and U. Versteegen. "Reinventing the Health Care System from Within: The Case of a Regional Physician Network in Germany." MIT Working paper #WPC 0010, 2003. www.dialogonleadership.org

Kao, John. "Conversation with John Kao: The Seventh Career: Building an Innovation." 2001.

Keiretsu. Interview by C. O. Scharmer, The Idea Factory. San Francisco, April 12, 2000. www.dialogonleadership.org

Kelley, Tom. The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm. New York: Doubleday, 2001.

Kofman, Fred, and Peter Senge. "Communities of Commitment: The Heart of Learning Organizations." Working Paper, Organizational Learning Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1994/2001.

McDonough,William and M. Braungart. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. New York: North Point Press, 2002.

Perlas, Nicanor. Shaping Globalization. Civil Society, Cultural Power and Threefolding. Saratoga Springs, NY: GlobeNet3, 2000.

Pruitt, Bettye H., and Katrin Kaufer. "Dialogue as a Tool for Peaceful Conflict Transformation." Reflections Vol. 3, No. 4 (2002): 50-65.

Rosch, Eleanor. "Conversation with Eleanor Rosch: Primary Knowing: When Perception Happens from the Whole Field." 2001. Interview by C. O. Scharmer, University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Psychology, October 15, 1999. www.dialogonleadership.org.

Scharmer, C. O. "Self-transcending Knowledge: Sensing and Organizing Around Emerging Opportunities." Knowledge Management Vol. 5, No. 2 (2001): 137-150.

Scharmer, C. O., W. B. Arthur, J. Day, J. Jaworski, M. Jung, I. Nonaka, and P. M. Senge. Illuminating the Blind Spot. 2002. www.dialogonleadership.org.

A shortened version of this paper was published in Leader to Leader (Spring 2002), 11-14.

Scharmer, C. O. The Blind Spot of Leadership: Presencing as a Social Technology of Freedom. 2003. Introduction to a forthcoming book with the same title. www.ottoscharmer.com 

Senge, Peter. "The Leader's New Work: Building Learning Organizations." Sloan Management Review Vol. 32, No. 1 (Fall 1990): 7-22.

Senge, Peter, and Goran Carstedt. "Innovating our Way to the Next Industrial Revolution." Sloan Management Review Vol. 42, No. 2 (Winter 2001): 24-39.

Senge, Peter, and Katrin Käufer. "Communities of Leaders or No Leadership at All." In Cutting Edge Leadership. Edited by Barbara Kellermann and Larraine R. Matusak. College Park, MD: James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, 2000, pp. 119-36.

Senge, Peter, and C. O. Scharmer. "Community Action Research." In Handbook of Action Research. Edited by Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury. Calif: Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, 2001, pp. 238-249.

Senge, P., C. O. Scharmer, J. Jaworski, and B. S. Flowers. Forthcoming. Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future (working title).

Shiva, Vandana. Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology. London and New York: Zed Books, 1993.

Stiglitz, Joseph E. Globalization and Its Discontents. New York and London: Norton, 2002.
United Nations. 2003. Global Compact: Corporate Citizenship in the World Economy. www.unglobalcompact.org

Varela, Francisco. "Conversation with Francisco Varela: Three Gestures of Becoming Aware." 2001. Interview by C. O. Scharmer, Paris, January 12, 2000. www.dialogonleadership.org