Theory U: Leading from the future as it emerges – The social technology of presencing.
In this amazing book, Otto Scharmer invites us to see the world in new ways—and to learn from the future as it emerges. Fundamental problems, as Einstein once noted, cannot be solved at the same level of thought that created them.
Theory U explores a whole new territory of scientific research and personal leadership. By moving through the “U” we learn to connect to our originating Self. We travel down the left side of the “U” to find ourselves in the realm of presencing, where we learn to sense the future that is seeking to emerge. At that level of operating, we experience the opening of our …
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Tags: change management, Emergence, leadership, management, otto scharmer, Theory
In our efforts to empower change and transformation in organizations we find great inspiration in the scientific fields of complexity theory and complex adaptive systems (CAS).
Examples of complex adaptive systems include the stock market, ant colonies, the ecosystem, the brain, the immune system and any human social group-based endeavour. There are close relationships between the field of CAS and artificial life. In both areas the principles of emergence and self-organization are very important.
The systems are complex in that they are dynamic networks of interactions and relationships. They are adaptive in that their individual and collective behaviour changes as a result of experience. They change and adapt.
This particular film clip introduces the science of complexity. The clip is from The Cassiopeia Project …
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Tags: Change, Complexity, Emergence, Systemic, Theory
