Resources


Co-Creation Newsletter:


Volume 1, Issue 1 – October 2007
The Inbox; Book Review: Theory U; Using integral theory to help find the blind spot
Volume 1, Issue 2 – December 2007
Complexity Made Simple using Theory U; The Waiting-for list; The World Café, More on Inbox Wrestling
Volume 1, Issue 3 – March 2008
The Art of Protection, More on the World Café, and an Article Review, The Servant as Leader
Volume 2, Issue 1 – September 2008
Authentic Leadership, The Art of Protection (Part II), and Book Review: The Tipping Point.
Volume 2, Issue 2 – February 2009
Planning Planning, Meeting at Cross Purposes, Greece in May, and Book Review: The Wisdom of Crowds.

Some Favourite Books:


Getting Things Done: The art of stress-free productivity, by David Allen
I fully empty my email Inbox at least twice a week, and have done so for years. Have I got your attention? Having tried a number of systems and philosophies of time and task management, I was really pleased to discover David Allen’s Getting Things Done. Allen has unusual insight into what makes for stressful task management (the Inbox is a terrible place to store to-do’s, for example), and I credit this book (and the sequel, Ready for Anything) with hugely reducing my task-related stress.
www.amazon.ca/Getting Things Done


The World Café: Shaping our Futures Through Conversations That Matter, by Juanita Brown with David Isaacs
One of the most influential books on my work is The World Café, by Juanita Brown with David Isaacs. A key question underlying this book is, “how do people have conversations that matter?” A useful question for business, government, just about anybody. While the book is focused on the World Café method of convening large- and medium-sized meetings, the underlying principles have much wider application.
www.amazon.com/The World Café

Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life, by Robert Fritz
If The Secret were a magazine ad, The Path of Least Resistance would be a user’s manual. Fritz is a brilliant translator of the creative process as practiced in the arts into the realms of business, organizations, entrepreneurship, and life.
www.amazon.com/The Path of Least Resistance

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization, by Peter Senge
To me, The Fifth Discipline, by Peter Senge, is a bible of sorts. The Journal of Business Strategy voted Senge as one of the 24 most influential business thinkers of the 20th century, and this book (newly revised) lays out the five fundamental disciplines of the learning-organization approach.
www.amazon.com/The Fifth Discipline

A Brief History of Everything, by Ken Wilbur
Here’s the test question: “Summarize the social, technical, biological, historical and intellectual development of humankind over the last 50,000 years referring to original sources and taking into account parallel developments on different continents. 250 words or less. Use examples and be specific.” Okay, it’s a joke. But if anyone could answer this question, it would be Ken Wilbur. This book is very useful for helping to make sense of some of the complexities of life these days.
www.amazon.com/A Brief History of Everything


Useful Links:


www.artofhosting.org
The Art of Hosting is an emerging discipline, based on living-system theory, which articulates how human systems can be nurtured and grown.

www.ottoscharmer.com
One of the developers of the U theory of social transformation, Otto Scharmer, is a master of distilling relatively messy experience into clear models for others to use.

www.solonline.org
The Society of Organizational Learning’s website is a hub for many related disciplines related to organizational change.