false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172807290m/219951.jpg 219951 5 <I>Presence</I> can be read as a both a guide and a challenge to leaders in business, education, and government to transform their institutions into powerful agents of change in a world increasingly out of balance. Since business is the most powerful institution in the world today, the authors argue, it must play a key role in solving global societal problems. Yet so many institutions seem to run people rather than the other way around. In this illuminating book, the authors seek to understand why people don't change systems and institutions even when they pose a threat to society, and examine why institutional change is so difficult to attain. <p> The authors view large institutions such as global corporations as a new species that are affecting nearly all other life forms on the planet. Rather than look at these systems as merely the extension of a few hyper-powerful individuals, they see them as a dynamic organisms with the potential to learn, grow, and evolve--but only if people exert control over them and actively eliminate their destructive aspects. "But until that potential is activated," they write, "industrial age institutions will continue to expand blindly, unaware of their part in a larger whole or of the consequences of their growth." For global institutions to be recreated in positive ways, there must be individual and collective levels of awareness, followed by direct action. Raising this awareness is what <I>Presence</I> seeks to achieve. Drawing on the insights gleaned from interviews with over 150 leading scientists, social leaders, and entrepreneurs, the authors emphasize what they call the "courage to see freshly"--the ability to view familiar problems from a new perspective in order to better understand how parts and wholes are interrelated. <p> This is not a typical business book. Mainly theoretical, it does not offer specific tips that organizational managers or directors can apply immediately; rather, it offers powerful tools and ideas for changing the mindset of leaders and unlocking the latent potential to "develop awareness commensurate with our impact, wisdom in balance with our power." <I>--Shawn Carkonen</I> 212966 16 8 2004 Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society total:94|5:36|4:31|3:23|2:3|1:1| 94 380 170 23 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Oct 29 10:57:29 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 12:31:34 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 26 08:31:40 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 08:31:40 -0800 2009 once carefully and then again quickly
The book before Theory U which in my opinion is the real book about this subject of groups learning to learn.

about 290pages with notes, acknowledgments, Index
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