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5 Literacies of Global Leadership
by Richard Hames
New research has exposed our leadership paradigm as a outdated mess of flawed models and practices. By working with great leaders and observing their common attitudes and behaviours, Richard Hames has cracked a universal code based on intelligence, appreciation and collaboration. This code unlocks Five Literacies of Global Leadership.

Community - The Structure of Belonging
by Peter Block
Modern society is plagued by fragmentation. The various sectors of our communities--businesses, schools, social service organizations, churches, government--do not work together. They exist in their own worlds. What Block provides in this inspiring new book is an exploration of the exact way community can emerge from fragmentation. He explores a way of thinking about our places that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us can do to make that happen. He reminds us that the questions are often more important than the answers.

Presence by Senge, Scharmer, Flowers, Jaworski
Presence is an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations held over a year and a half, organizational learning pioneers Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers explored the nature of transformational change—how it arises, and the fresh possibilities it offers a world dangerously out of balance.

Theory U by Otto Scharmer
A leading edge methodology that takes us on a learning journey into the U. Helps us see the influence of our perspective on how a situation unfolds, illuminating our own blind spot. Balancing theoretical perspective and practical social technology Theory U provides a set of principles and practices for collectively creating the future that wants to emerge.

The Necessary Revolution by Peter Senge
A revolution is underway in today’s organizations. As Peter Senge and his co-authors reveal in The Necessary Revolution, companies around the world are boldly leading the change from dead-end “business as usual” tactics to transformative strategies that are essential for creating a flourishing, sustainable world. There is a long way to go, but the era of denial has ended. Today’s most innovative leaders are recognizing that for the sake of our companies and our world, we must implement revolutionary—not just incremental—changes in the way we live and work.

Websites/Organisations

Gallup Management Journal
Excellent resource for managers looking for sound advice with an empirical foundation. Excellent articles on Employee Engagement, Wellbeing (see article below) and Strengths Based Leadership

The Winding Staircase
An innovative 'social ecology' in
Perth
Perth WA that intends "...to evoke and enable leadership within individuals, organisations and communities  who recognise that our full potential is realised through sustainable relationships with self, others and our natural environment."

Society for Organisational Learning
Developing capacity for inspired results in ordinary and extraordinary circumstances is the common passion that brings together a diverse community. Created by Peter Senge.

Presencing Institute
The Presencing Institute is a global action research community that applies Theory U to societal transformation by shifting the social field from ego-system to eco-system awareness. The presencing process is a journey that connects us more deeply both to what wants to emerge in the world and to our highest future possibility—our emerging authentic self.

Articles

The Five Essential Elements of Wellbeing  
Gallup Management Journal answers the question: What differentiates a thriving life from one spent suffering? A brilliant and very useful article. 


Corporate Sustainability - By Dexter Dunphy. Available via Google Doc.
An exploration of the relationship of the corporate sector to sustainability. Revealing a useful framework for supporting the expansion of this relationship, from outright rejection through to compliance and ultimately having sustainability as a central value of a given business. 

Goodbye, Command and Control by Margaret Wheatley founder of the Berkana Institute.
Written in 1997, and just as relevant to what we face today. Wheatley is a pioneer in new paradigm leadership.


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