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Theory U: Learning from the Future as It Emerges by C. Otto Scharmer

heikieesmaa's review against another edition

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5.0

Tremendously interesting book about management, the type though that concerns us all. Brings together many influences some of which have been important to me -- like Wilber, Steiner, constellation work. It is about bringing something new about in the collective space, written in a clear way but decidedly challenging.

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3.0

This post is a bit odd in that it’s not a book review – but it’s about a book and more broadly about a theory. This post is about Otto Scharmer’s Theory U. The book Theory U expresses the ideas from a personal context, and Otto’s subsequent book Leading from the Emerging Future expresses the same ideas from group, cultural and societal perspectives. Recently, I was given a chance to revisit my thinking on this material – and very shortly after that finished a book with strong correlation by another author. (That review is forthcoming.) This pressed upon me the importance of Otto’s work – and the need to make it more accessible. In this post, I endeavor to pull together the other places where echoes of Theory U can be found and attempt to weave together a concrete story about how people can grow through a process that looks like Theory U.

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zral_noim's review against another edition

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informative slow-paced

0.5

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