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Changing the game. Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring, 2006, online at 

www.ssireview.org

www.grli.org;

www.globescan.com.

See the work of David Cooperrider and his team at www.worldbenefit.crwu.edu.

 

Banff Centre: Website of the Canadian Banff Centre, with a large selection of online

resources and articles on leadership, www.banffcentre.ca/leadership/library

 

Centre for Public Leadership (Harvard Kennedy School): A centre at Harvard Univer-

sity specialising on leadership education and research,

www.centerforpublicleadership.org

 

IDEO shopping cart project: A short movie on the IDEO shopping cart project –

design thinking in action (20 Minutes), http://youtu.be/taJOV-YCieI

 

Leaderful Institute: The Leaderful Institute is a collaboration of the Boston Consortium

for Higher Education and Joseph Raelin, and works with key change agents in

the public and private sectors, www.leaderful.org

 

Leadership Lessons from a Dancing Guy: A short movie illustrating the role of ‘the first

follower’ in leadership (3 minutes), http://youtu.be/fW8amMCVAJQ

Pegasus Communications: Resources on systems thinking, including the online publication The Systems Thinker, www.pegasuscom.com

 

Presencing Institute: Website of the Presencing Institute with tools and other resources on Theory U and the work of Otto Scharmer, www.presencing.com

 

Redford, Robert (2000): The Legend of Bagger Vance. A film telling the story of a golf

player who loses and re-gains his swing, by learning from his mystical caddy to

sense into a situation and focusing on the wisdom of his body

 

Wheatley, Margaret (2011): Video of a lecture of Margaret Wheatley. Perseverance:

Leadership in Turbulent Times, given at Simon Fraser University, October

19th 2011 (1 hour 35 minutes), http://youtu.be/9nRj_ovvUGE

Books and Articles

Baldwin, Christina (2007): Storycatcher. Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and

Practice of Story, Novato, New World Library

Baldwin, Christina / Ann Linnea (2010): The Circle Way, San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler

(excerpt available online at

http://www.peerspirit.com/products/circleway/excerpt.pdf)

Bass Bernard M (1990): From Transactional to Transformational Leadership. Learning

to Share the Vision. In: Organisational Dynamics, 18, pp. 19-31

Bateson, Gregory (1972): Steps to an Ecology of Mind, New York, Ballantine Books

Beck, Don / Christopher Cowan (1996): Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership

and Change, Oxford, Blackwell

Bohm, David (1994): Thought As A System, London, Routledge

Bohm, David (1995): Unfolding Meaning, London, Routledge

Bohm, David (1996): On Dialogue, London, Routledge

Bohm, David (1998): On Creativity, London, Routledge

Bohm, David / Don Factor / Peter Garrett (1991): Dialogue: A Proposal, available online

at www.world.std.com/~lo/bohm/0000.html

and www.world.std.com/~lo/bohm/0001.html.

Bohm, David / F David Peat (1987): Science, Order, and Creativity, New York, Bantam

Books

Briggs, John / F David Peat (1984): Turbulent Mirror. An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory

and the Emerging Science of Wholeness, New York, Harper and Row

Brown, Juanita /David Isaacs/Eric Vogt (2005): The Art of Powerful Questions, Mill Valley,

Whole Systems Associates

Brown, Juanita and David Isaacs (2005): The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through

Conversations That Matter, San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler

Brown, Tim (2008): Design Thinking. Harvard Business Review, June 2008

Brown, Tim (2009) Change by Design. How Design Thinking Transforms Organisations and

Inspires Innovation, New York, Harper Collins

Brown, Tim/Jocelyn Wyat (2010): Design Thinking for Social Innovation. IDEO. In: Devel-

opment Outreach, July 2010, pp. 29-43

Burns James MacGreggor (1978): Leadership, New York, Open Road

Cheal, Joe (2007): Utilising and Developing the Logical Levels Model, GWiz Learning Part-

nership, GWiz Training, available online at

www.gwiztraining.com/Logical%20Levels%20of%20Self.pdf

Cheal, Joe (2008): The Logical Levels of Organisations, GWiz Learning Partnership, GWiz

Training, Available online at http://gwiznlp.com/Logical%20Levels%20&%20

The%20Learning%20Organisation.pdf

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Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (1996): Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and

Invention, New York, Harper Perennial

Diamond, Jared (2005): Collapse. How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, New York,

Viking Penguin

Dilts, Robert (1990): Changing Belief Systems with NLP, Capitola, Meta Publications.

Dilts, Robert (1996): Visionary Leadership Skills, Capitola, Meta Publications.

Earl, Sarah / Fred Carden / Terry Smutylo (2002): Outcome Mapping. Building Learn-

ing and Reflection into Development Programs. IDRC, Ottawa, available online at

http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca/dspace/bitstream/10625/32122/1/117218.pdf

Flick, Judith (2010): Tool Book Climate Leadership Programme, InWEnt gGmbH, Bonn

Frankl, Viktor (1959, 2006): Man’s Search for Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the

Holocaust, Boston, Beacon Press

Foster, Steven / Meredith Little (1989): The Roaring of the Sacred River: The Wilderness

Quest for Vision and Self-Healing. New York, Prentice Hall

Galvin, James C. / Peter O’Donnel (2005): Authentic Leadership. Balancing Doing

and Being. The Systems Thinker, Vol. 16. No. 3, April 2005. Available online at

http://healthyfutures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Authentic-Leadership-

The-Systems-Thinker.pdf

Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH (2011): Capacity Works

Manual, Eschborn, GIZ, available online at http://www.giz.de/en/downloads/

giz2012-en-Capacity-WORKS-manual.pdf

Goleman, Daniel / Richard Boyatzis / Annie McKee (2004): Primal Leadership. Learning

to Lead with Emotional Intelligence, Boston, Harvard Business Press

Hanh, Thich Nhat (1992): Peace is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life,

New York, Random House

Heifetz, Ronald A (1994): Leadership Without Easy Answers, Cambridge MA, Harvard

University Press

Heifetz, Ronald A/Marty Linsky (2002): Leadership on the Line. Staying Alive Through the

Dangers of Leading, Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press

Heifetz, Ronald/Alexander Grashow / Marty Linsky (2009): The Practice of Adaptive

Leadership. Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organisation and the World, Boston,

Harvard Business Press

Holman, Peggy / Tom Devane / Stephen Cady (2007): The Change Handbook. The Defin-

itive Resource to Today’s Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems, San Francisco,

Berrett-Koehler, complete online version available at

www.bkpextranet.com/wulf/changehandbook.pdf

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Hübner, Sandra / Matthias Nückles / Alexander Renkl (2006): Prompting cognitive and

metacognitive processsing in writing-to-learn enhances learning outcomes. In R. Sun,

  1. Miyake & C. Schunn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the

Cognitive Science Society, pp. 357-362, available online at

http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/proceedings/2006/docs/p357.pdf

Isaacs, William (1993): Taking Flight: Dialogue, Collective Thinking, and Organisational

Learning. Organisational Dynamics. Autumn 1993, pp. 24-39

Isaacs, William (2008): Dialogue. The Art of Thinking Together: A Pioneering Approach to

Communicating in Business and in Life, New York, Random House

Jaworski, Joseph (2011): Synchronicity. The inner path of leadership, Second Expanded Edi-

tion, San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler

Justice, Tom and David W Jamieson (2012): The Facilitator’s Fieldbook. Step by step proce-

dures, checklists and guidelines samples and templates, New York, HRD Press

Kabat-Zinn, John (1994): Wherever You Go, There You Are. Mindfulness Practice for Every-

day Life, New York, Hyperion

Kegan, Robert/Lahey Lisa Laskow (2009): Immunity to Change. How to overcome it and

unlock the potential in yourself and your organisation, Boston, Harvard Business

Press

Kotter, John (1990): What Leaders Really Do. Harvard Business Review 68(3), pp. 103-

  1. Available online at http://web.sau.edu/richardsrandyl/what%20lead-

ers%20really%20do_kotter.pdf

Lowe K B, Gardner W L (2001): Ten Years of Transformational Leadership. Contributions

and Challenges for the Future. Leadership Quarterly, 11(4), pp. 459-514

Macy, Joanna / Molly Young Brown (1998): Coming Back to Life. Practices to Reconnect

our Lives, our World, New York, New Society Publishers

McDonough, Bill und Braungart Michael (2002): Cradle to Cradle. Remaking the Way we

Make Things, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

McIntosh, Steve (2007): Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution. How the Inte-

gral Worldview Is Transforming Politics, Culture, and Spirituality, St Paul, Paragon

House

Metcalf, Maureen / Mark Palmer (2011): The Innovative Leadership Fieldbook. Field-Tested

Integral Approaches to Developing Leaders, Transforming Organisations and Creating

Sustainability, Integral Publishers, Tucson

Mindell, Amy (2003): Metaskills. The Spiritual Art of Therapy, Portland, Lao Tse Press

Mindell, Arnold (1995): Sitting in the Fire. Large Group Transformation Using Conflict and

Diversity, Portland, Lao Tse Press

Mindell, Arnold (2000): The Leader as Martial Artist. Techniques and Strategies for Resolving

Conflict and Creating Community, Portland, Lao Tse Press

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Nelson, Nancy (2001): Writing to Learn: One Theory, Two Rationales. In Tynjälä, Päivi /

Lucia Mason / Kirsti Lonka (Eds.), Writing as a Learning Tool. Integrating Theory

and Practice, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Press, pp. 23-36

Northouse Peter G (2004): Leadership. Theory and Practice. Thousand Oaks, Sage

Publications

Nückles, Matthias / Rolf Schwonke / Kirsten Berthold / Alexander Renkl (2004): The

Use of Public Learning diaries in Blended Learning, Journal of Educational Media,

29, pp. 49-66

Orr, David W (2004): Earth in Mind, Washington DC, First Island Press

Ospina, Sonia/Georgia L J Sorensen (2006): A Constructionist Lens on Leadership. Chart-

ing New Territory. In: Goethals George R und Sorenson Georgia L J (2006) The

Quest for a General Theory of Leadership. New Horizons in Leadership Studies. Chel-

tenham and Northampton, Edward Elgar

Papanek, Viktor (1971): Design for the Real World. Human Ecology and Social Change, Chi-

cago, Academy Chicago

Peterson, David B / Mary Dee Hicks (1996): Leader as Coach. Strategies for Coaching and

Developing Others, Minneapolis, Personnel Decisions International

Pintrich, Paul R. (2000): The Role of Goal Orientation in Self-Regulated Learning. In Boe-

kaerts, Monique / Paul R Pintrich / Moshe Zeidner (Eds.), Handbook of Self-

regulation, San Diego, Academic Press, pp. 451-502

Plotkin, Bill (2003): Soulcraft. Crossing the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche. Novato, New

World Library

Quinn Patton, Michael (2008): Utilisation-Focused Evaluation, Thousand Oaks, Sage

Publications

Raelin, Joseph A (2004): Don’t Bother Putting Leadership into People. Academy of Manage-

ment Executive, Vol 18, No 3, pp. 131-135

Reed, George (2006): Leadership and Systems Thinking, Defense AT&L May-June 2006.

Available online at www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/dau/ree_mj06.pdf

Reidy, Deborah (2003): Embracing Vulnerability: A core leadership Discipline for our Times.

The Systems Thinker, Vol. 14 No. 8. Available online at www.reidyassociates.

org/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/pdf/Vulnerability%20article.pdf

Robinson, Hickman Gill/Richard A Couto (2006): Causality, Change and Leadership. In:

Goethals, George R und Sorenson, Georgia L J (2006) The Quest for a Gen-

eral Theory of Leadership. New Horizons in Leadership Studies. Cheltenham and

Northampton, Edward Elgar, P. 152-187

Rogers, Carl (1961): On Becoming a Person. A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy, London,

Constable

Scharmer, C Otto (2003): The Blind Spot of Leadership. Presencing as a Social Technology of

Freedom, Habilitation Thesis

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Scharmer, C Otto (2009a): Theory U. Leading from the Future as it Emerges, San Fran-

cisco, Berrett-Koehler

Scharmer, C Otto (2009b): ELIAS. Creating Platforms for Learning and Innovating on the

Scale of the Whole System. Paper prepared for FOSAD Workshop Mount Grace

Hotel Magaliesburg, South Africa, November 25, 2009

Scharmer, C Otto (2009c): Theory U – Executive Summary, available online at

www.presencing.com/executivesummary

Scharmer, C Otto (2010): The Blind Spot of Institutional Leadership. How To Create Deep

Innovation Through Moving from Egosystem to Ecosystem Awareness. Paper prepared

for World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2010,

Tianjin, People’s Republic of China, 13-15 September 2010

Schein, Edgar (2010): Organisational Culture and Leadership, San Francisco, John Wiley

& Sons.

Schein, Edgar (2011): Learning to Change Wisely, available online at www.bertelsmann-

stiftung.de/bst/en/media/xcms_bst_dms_33107_33108_2.pdf

Schwalm, Lothar, STOP practice, personal communication. Contact, information and

resources (in German) at www.mbsr-bb.de

Schwartz, Shalom H and W Bilsky (1987): Toward a Universal Psychological Structure of

Human Values. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 53, pp. 550-562

Schwartz, Shalom H. (1992): Universals in the Content and Structure of Values: Theory and

Empirical Tests in 20 Countries. In M. Zanna (ed.), Advances in Experimental

Social Psychology (Vol. 25). New York: Academic Press, pp. 1-65

Schwartz, Shalom H. (2007): Basic Human Values, an Overview, available online at:

http://segr-did2.fmag.unict.it/Allegati/convegno%207-8-10-05/Schwartzpa-

per.pdf

Seghezzi, Ursula (2012): Kompass des Lebens. Eine Reise durch die menschliche Natur,

Triesen, Van Eck Verlag (in German)

Senge, Peter et al. (2010): The Necessary Revolution. Working Together to Create a Sustainable

World, New York, Crown Business

Senge, Peter M (2006, 1990): The Fifth Discipline, New York, Random House

Senge, Peter M / Art Kleiner / Charlotte Roberts / Barbara B Ross / Bryan J Smith

(2010, 1994): The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, London, Nicholas Brealey

Senge, Peter M. / C. Otto Scharmer / Joseph Jaworski / Betty S. Flowers (2005): Pres-

ence. Exploring Profound Change in People, Organisations and Society, London,

Doubleday

Shibley, John J (2001) A Primer on Systems Thinking and Organisational Learning,

Portland Learning Organisation group, available online at

http://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/gossimit/pap/sd/js_orglearn.htm.

Smith, M. K. (2001): Peter Senge and the learning organisation. Encyclopedia of informal

education, available online at www.infed.org/thinkers/senge.htm

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Szpakowsky, Susan / Barbara Bash (2010): Little Book of Practice for Authentic Leadership

in Action, ALIA Institute, Halifax

Tynjälä, Päivi / Lucia Mason / Kirsti Lonka (2001): Writing as a learning tool, an introduc-

tion. In Tynjälä, Päivi / Lucia Mason / Kirsti Lonka (Eds.), Writing as a learn-

ing tool. Integrating Theory and Practice, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Press, pp.

7-22

Ueshiba, Kisshomaru (1984): The Spirit of Aikido, New York, Kodansha

Watts, Alan (1951): The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety, New York,

Random House

Wheatley, Margaret (1992): Leadership and the New Science. Learning about Organisation

from an Orderly Universe, San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler

Wheatley, Margaret, Frieze Debbie (2010): Leadership in the Age of Complexity: From Hero

to Host. In: Resurgence, Winter 2010, available online at

www.margaretwheatley.com/articles/Leadership-in-Age-of-Complexity.pdf

Wilber, Ken (1998): The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion, New

York, Random House

Wilber, Ken (2000): A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science

and Spirituality, Boston, Shambhala

Wilber, Ken (2007): The Integral Vision: A Very Short Introduction to the Revolutionary Inte-

gral Approach to Life, God, the Universe, and Everything, Boston, Shambhala

Wright, Susan (2004): The Leader as a Coach, Creating High Performance in Change, in

Banff Centre Leadership Compass, 11(2004), pp. 22-24

http://www.banffcentre.ca/leadership/compass/pdf/compass_issue_11.pdf

Yarmolinsky, Adam (2007): The Challenge of Change in Leadership. In: Couto Richard A.

(Ed.), Reflections on Leadership, Lanham MD, University Press of America

Yukl, Gary A (1999): An Evaluation of Conceptual Weaknesses in Transformational and

Charismatic Leadership Theories, Leadership Quarterly, 10(2), pp. 285-305

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Resources on Leadership

Banff Centre: Website of the Canadian Banff Centre, with a large selection of online

resources and articles on leadership, www.banffcentre.ca/leadership/library

Centre for Public Leadership (Harvard Kennedy School): A centre at Harvard Univer-

sity specialising on leadership education and research,

www.centerforpublicleadership.org

IDEO shopping cart project: A short movie on the IDEO shopping cart project –

design thinking in action (20 Minutes), http://youtu.be/taJOV-YCieI

Leaderful Institute: The Leaderful Institute is a collaboration of the Boston Consortium

for Higher Education and Joseph Raelin, and works with key change agents in

the public and private sectors, www.leaderful.org

Leadership Lessons from a Dancing Guy: A short movie illustrating the role of ‘the first

follower’ in leadership (3 minutes), http://youtu.be/fW8amMCVAJQ

Pegasus Communications: Resources on systems thinking, including the online publica-

tion The Systems Thinker, www.pegasuscom.com

Presencing Institute: Website of the Presencing Institute with tools and other resources

on Theory U and the work of Otto Scharmer, www.presencing.com

Redford, Robert (2000): The Legend of Bagger Vance. A film telling the story of a golf

player who loses and re-gains his swing, by learning from his mystical caddy to

sense into a situation and focusing on the wisdom of his body

Wheatley, Margaret (2011): Video of a lecture of Margaret Wheatley. Perseverance:

Leadership in Turbulent Times, given at Simon Fraser University, October

19th 2011 (1 hour 35 minutes), http://youtu.be/9nRj_ovvUGE

 

Resources for Facilitators

Appreciative Inquiry: A video on Appreciative Inquiry, by John Hayes

Appreciative Inquiry: Appreciative Inquiry Commons, a website with resources on

appreciative inquiry, run by the Case Western Reserve University,

http://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu

Art of Hosting community network: Art of Hosting community page Contains a wealth

of information about different tools and methodologies, and online conversa-

tions of experienced practitioners, exchanging their experiences,

www.artofhosting.ning.com

Art of Hosting: Website of the Art of Hosting community, with resources and links on

World Café, Open Space, Appreciative Inquiry and Circle Practice,

www.artofhosting.org

International Association of Facilitators: Website with resources for facilitators,

www.iaf-world.com

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Open Space Community: Website of the Open Space Community,

www.openspaceworld.com

Open Space: A short video on Open space: http://vimeo.com/25251316

World Cafe: Introduction video to world café, http://youtu.be/YrTKD8NpApY

World Cafe: Resources and further links, www.theworldcafe.com

 

Resources on Dialogue

Collection of websites on Dialogue. www.laetusinpraesens.org/links/webdial.php

Mapping Dialogue: Research project profiling dialogue tools and processes for social

change, www.collectivewisdominitiative.org/papers/pioneers_dialogue/00_all.pdf

Peer Spirit: Website of Christina Baldwin and Anne Linnea, with resources on ‘circle

practice’, a variation of dialogue. www.peerspirit.com

 

Websites on Integral Theory

Integral Institute: Homepage of Ken Wilber‘s Integral Institute.

www.integralinstitute.org

Integral Life: A portal for the integral community with lots of resources.

www.integrallife.com

Integral World: A selection of essays on integral theory and practice.

www.integralworld.net

Wilber, Ken: Ken Wilber’s Homepage. www.kenwilber.com

 

Resources on Systems Thinking and Organisational Learning

Bateson, Nora (2010): An Ecology of Mind. A film about the life work of the anthro-

pologist, systems scientist and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson. By his daughter,

Nora Bateson. Details online at

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1679144/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Peter Senge, founder of the Society of Organisational Learning, on Systems Thinking.

http://youtu.be/HOPfVVMCwYg

The Society for Organisational Learning – various resources to the work of Peter Senge

and learning organisations. www.solonline.org

Video of Russell Ackoff, father of systems thinking, giving a 12 min Talk on systems

thinking. http://youtu.be/OqEeIG8aPPk

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Resources on Monitoring and Evaluation

American Evaluation Association, www.eval.org

Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, www.jcsee.org

Poem Collections

Archive of the ‘Panhala Group’, with a large selection of inspiring poems.

www.panhala.net/Archive/index.html

A selection of poems, collected by Art of Hosting practitioners.

http://artofhosting.ning.com/forum/topics/great-and-inspiring-poems-an

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