Linkage on presence, leadership and creativity
Ten items of linkage focusing on conversation, transformative leadership, presencing and creativity:
- Hugh McLeod’s beautiful treatise on how to be creative.
- The conversations guide from the Christian Science Monitor called Across the Red-Blue Divide. Contains a series of articles and a public conversations guide to help people listen to one another.
- A one page guide for facilitating conversations across the political divide, from the Public Conversations Project. Both of the above courtesy of Happenings
- Fieldnotes: the newsletter of the Shambhala Institute. If you can afford it, this year’s Shambhala Authentic Leadership Summer Program will be very worthwhile, featuring Harrison Owen, Toke Moeller, Adam Kahane, Art Kleiner and Margaret Wheatley among others.
- The Global Leadership Initiative putting Otto Sharmer’s Theory of the U into practice. For more on that, see the site for Presence
- Bringing the mind of reflection into Action (.pdf). An interview with Peter Senge from his workshop at the Shambhala Institute in 2003. Via Empowerment Illustrated.
- Denationalizing Community. A paper by Richard Cornuelle arguing that the welfare state appropriated community and robbed citizens of the ability to take leadership in their own spaces.
- Peter Drucker on Making Decisions. Best practices from research. Managers that were considered effective said “we” rather than “I.”
- Presencing: Learning from the future as it emerges by C. Otto Scharmer: “This paper looks at the impact of the emerging new business environments � often referred to as the “new economy” � on the basic concepts of organizational learning and change … In order to do well in the emerging new business environments, organizations and their leaders have to develop a new cognitive capability, the capability for sensing and seizing emerging business opportunities … (They) can develop this capability by engaging in a different kind of learning cycle, one that allows them to learn from the future as it emerges, rather than from reflecting on past experiences.” Figures, tools and an extensive bibliography are included.
- Bill Torbert’s page on Action Inquiry, with many links and interesting articles. Via Empowerment Illustrated.
