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Recommended readings

Bellman, G. M. (2002). The consultant’s calling: Bringing who you are to what you do. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Capra, F. (1996). The web of life. New York: Anchor Books.

Hall, E. T. (1989). Beyond culture. New York: Anchor Books.

Heifetz. R. A. (1994). Leadership without easy answers. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Knowles, M. S., Holton, E. F., & Swanson, R. A. (2005). The Adult Learner: The Definitive Classic in Adult Education and Human Resource Development. Burlington, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann.

McDonough, W. & Braungart, M. (2002). Cradle to cradle: remaking the way we make things. New York: North Point Press.

Nelson, H. G, & Stolterman, E. (2003). The design way: Intentional change in an unpredictable world: Foundational and fundamentals of design competence. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications. Part I: chs. 1– 4.

Senge, P. M. (1990). The fifth discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization. New York: Doubleday Currency.

Senge, P. M., Scharmer, C. O., Jaworski, J., & Flowers, B. S. (2004). Presence: Human purpose and the field of the future. Cambridge, MA: The Society of Organizational Learning.

Systems Thinking Journal, available online (log-in required)

Vaill, P. B. (1996). Learning as a way of being: Strategies for survival in a world of permanent white water. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Weisbord, M.R. (2004). Productive workplaces revisited: Dignity, meaning, and community in the 21st century. (2nd ed.) San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Wheatley, M. J. (1999). Leadership and the new science: Discovering order in a chaotic world. (2nd ed.). San Francisco: Berrett Koehler Publishers.

compiled March 2005