A Few Worldview Expanding Books
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Mid-Course Correction | Ray C. Anderson |
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The Tao of Democracy | Tom Atlee | |
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Biomimicry | Janine Benyus | |
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The Answer To How Is Yes | Peter Block | |
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The Hidden Connections | Fritjof Capra | |
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Finite and Infinite Games | James P. Carse | |
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Good To Great | Jim Collins | |
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Appreciative Inquiry | David Cooperrider, et al. | |
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The Restoration Economy | Storm Cunningham | |
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Promise Ahead | Duane Elgin | |
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After The Clockwork Universe | Sally Goerner | |
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The Last Word on Power | Tracy Goss | |
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The Thin Book of Appreciative Inquiry | Sue Annis Hammond | |
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The Ecology of Commerce | Paul Hawken | |
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What Matters Most | Jeffrey Hollender, S. Fenichell | |
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Natural Capitalism | P. Hawken, A. & L. H. Lovins | |
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Conscious Evolution | Barbara Marx Hubbard | |
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The Divine Right of Capital | Majorie Kelly | |
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What We Learned in the Rainforest | Tachi Kiuchi & Bill Shireman | |
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Who Really Matters | Art Kleiner | |
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Living in Balance | Joel & Michelle Levey | |
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An Evolutionary Agenda | Alan Sasha Lithman | |
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Cradle to Cradle | Wm. McDonough & M. Braungart | |
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The Natural Step Story | Karl-Henrik Robert | |
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Presence | Peter Senge, et al. | |
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The Universe Story | Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry | |
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Cultivating Communities of Practice | E. Wenger, R. McDermott, W. Snyder | |
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A Theory of Everything | Ken Wilber | |
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Soul of the Computer | Barbara Waugh |
Description of Ratings
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Directly relevant — a very important contribution to illuminating what can be seen through this lens. |
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Clearly contributes to what can be seen through this lens. |
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Philosophically aligned, but limited direct contribution to understanding the nature and relevance of this particular lens. |
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Doesn't directly address what can be seen through this lens. |
Caveat
These ratings represent only my subjective assessment of the usefulness of these particular books in illuminating the unique nature of these particular lenses—especially as they relate to the world of organizational learning and change.
A Few Observations
The quality of human designs can range from those which are potentially disastrous for now and future stakeholders to those which are truly generative, approaching Nature's designs in elegance, efficiency and effectiveness. The books selected for the above list help illustrate our potential for making generative design choices.
Organizational capacity-building capacity is an increasingly important design feature for organizations in today's world. This is the subset of Human Designs which will determine the nature of the life cycle(s) for an organization. The quality of our organization's approaches to capacity-building can also vary from disastrous to that which is truly generative. Generative Capacity-Building is a relatively new distinction. This web site is intended to serve as a base camp for those pioneering this emerging field.
