Resources on Leadership
Changing the game. Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring, 2006, online at
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
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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
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Cheal, Joe (2008): The Logical Levels of Organisations, GWiz Learning Partnership, GWiz
Training, Available online at http://gwiznlp.com/Logical%20Levels%20&%20
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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-
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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
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Cognitive Science Society, pp. 357-362, available online at
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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
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- 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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