The Essentials of Theory U: Core Principles and Applications
Written by C. Otto Scharmer
Narrated by Wayne Shepherd
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This book offers a concise, accessible guide to the key concepts and applications in Otto Scharmer's classic Theory U. Scharmer argues that our capacity to pay attention coshapes the world. What prevents us from attending to situations more effectively is that we aren't fully aware of that interior condition from which our attention and actions originate.
Scharmer calls this lack of awareness our blind spot. He illuminates the blind spot in leadership today and offers hands-on methods to help change makers overcome it through the process, principles, and practices of Theory U. And he outlines a framework for updating the “operating systems” of our educational institutions, our economies, and our democracies. This book enables leaders and organizations in all industries and sectors to shift awareness, connect with the highest future possibilities, and strengthen the capacity to co-shape the future.
C. Otto Scharmer
C. Otto Scharmer is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founding chair of the Presencing Institute. He is faculty chair of MIT's IDEAS program; visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing; and a cofounder of the Global Wellbeing and Gross National Happiness Lab, which links innovators from Bhutan, India, China, Brazil, Europe, and the United States to prototype profound innovations in government, business, education, and civil society. He is the coauthor of Leading from the Emerging Future and Presence.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5he Essentials of Theory U emerged as a 160-page alternative to the 500-page Theory U proper. The book is mainly about the principles and premises of the Theory created by Otto Scharmer. Basically Otto Scharmer's work is about leadership as a capacity rather than a role, and especially not a role of a single individual. Rather, leadership, according to Scharmer, is the ability of a system to “co-sense and co-shape the future......
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The clear presentation of the distinction between ego/only serving oneself and eco/not only serving self in relation to our intentionality and motivation much appreciated.