My Work in the World
Influences
People whose work and presence influence me and my work:
W. Edwards Deming – The System of Profound Knowledge
Bill Bellows – Enterprise Thinking
Peter Senge – Organizational learning & “We’ve never been here before”
Fred Kofman – “Response-ability”
Margaret Wheatley – “Turning to one another”
Juanita Brown – The World Café & conversations that matter
Peter Block – Powerful questions
Linda Booth Sweeney – Teaching about systems through stories
The Waters Foundation – The Habits of a Systems Thinker (cards & book)
Peter Scholtes – The “47 habits of pretty good leaders”
Garr Reynolds – Creating beautiful & effective presentations
Russell Ackoff – Idealized design & systems thinking
Jon Kabat-Zinn – “Wherever you go, there you are.”
Eduardo Galeano and Howard Zinn – The world from a perspective not my own
Arundhati Roy – A different view of democracy
Chris Argyris – The mutual learning model
Sharon Parks – Adaptive leadership
Don Swartz – “It’s mostly about how you show up”
Hugh O’Doherty – Adaptive leadership & conflict resolution
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