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"Presence" is an intimate look at the development of a new theory
about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations held over
a year and a half, organizational learning pioneers Peter Senge, C.
Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers explored the
nature of transformational change--how it arises, and the fresh
possibilities it offers a world dangerously out of balance. The
book introduces the idea of "presence"--a concept borrowed from the
natural world that the whole is entirely present in any of its
parts--to the worlds of business, education, government, and
leadership. Too often, the authors found, we remain stuck in old
patterns of seeing and acting. By encouraging deeper levels of
learning, we create an awareness of the larger whole, leading to
actions that can help to shape its evolution and our future.
Drawing on the wisdom and experience of 150 scientists, social
leaders, and entrepreneurs, including Brian Arthur, Rupert
Sheldrake, Buckminster Fuller, Lao Tzu, and Carl Jung, "Presence"
is both revolutionary in its exploration and hopeful in its
message. This astonishing and completely original work goes on to
define the capabilities that underlie our ability to see, sense,
and realize new possibilities--in ourselves, in our institutions
and organizations, and in society itself.
In his trailblazing book Theory U, Otto Scharmer described a
powerful process for sensing the future that is emerging so we can
align ourselves with it and help it to come into being. Now he
shows that this same U process is the key to finally resolving the
multiple crises we face today. One of the key insights of Theory U
is that form follows awareness: the quality of the results in any
kind of system is a function of the awareness that people in the
system are operating from. Even though our world is interconnected
in ways unimaginable even a decade ago, in many cases our
awareness-whether as individuals, organizations or nations-is still
limited and local. To use an analogy from biology, even though our
actions affect the larger ecosystem of which we are a part-in fact
the multiple interacting economic, social, political and
environmental ecosystems-we sill behave as though our actions are
narrow in scope and impact. We see ourselves as part of a far
smaller, more isolated ego-system. Scharmer and Kaufer explain why
actions based on this "ego-system" awareness not only result in
recurring crises, but doom any attempt to resolve them-we are
trying to meet new challenges with an obsolete mindset. To show the
shape of the emerging future they bring this ecosystem awareness to
bear on areas such as labor, capital, production, technology,
leadership, ownership and many others, offering a blueprint for a
new society based on a profound understanding of how the actions of
each affects the many. This book's journey is about a path and a
method of dropping the baggage of old habits of thought and then
crossing through the gate to an economy that operates more
consciously, inclusively, and collectively.
Radical and hopeful - Presence synthesises cutting-edge thinking,
firsthand knowledge and ancient wisdom Presence: Human Purpose and
the Field of the Future gives the reader an intimate look at the
development of a new theory about change and learning. A book built
around a series of wide-ranging conversations over a year and a
half, Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski, and Flowers explore their own
experiences and those of one hundred and fifty scientists and
social and business entrepreneurs in an effort to explain how
profound collective change occurs. Their journey of discovery
articulates a new way of seeing the world, and of understanding our
part in creating it - as it is and as it might be. Presence
explores the living fields that connect us to one another, to life
more broadly, and, potentially, to what is "seeking to emerge."
Seven capacities underlie our ability to see, sense, and realize
new possibilities. Developing these capacities accesses a deeper
level of learning that is the key to creating change that services
the whole - ourselves, our organizations and the communities of
which we are a part.
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