Papers on Presencing

2008. Uncovering the Blind Spot of Leadership. Scharmer, C.O., Executive Forum: Leader to Leader. Winter 2008.
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2007. Executive Summary: Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges (17 pages)
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2007. Executive Summary: Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges (2 pages)
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2004. Awakening Faith in an Alternative Future. Senge, P.; Scharmer, C.O.; Jaworski, J.; Flowers, B.S.;
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2003. The Blind Spot of Leadership. Presencing as a Social Technology of Freedom. Habilitation Thesis. Introduction.
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2003. Breathing Life into a Dying System. Kaeufer, K; Scharmer, C.O.; Versteegen, U.
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2002. Presencing: A Social Technology of Freedom. Interview with Dr. Claus Otto Scharmer.
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2002. Presencing: Soziale Technologie der Freiheit. Interview mit Dr. Claus Otto Scharmer.
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2002. (with Peter Senge) Learning Communities: Toward a Triadic Differentiation of Learning Networks.
In: Heinrich v. Pierer und Bolko von Oetinger (Hrsg.) A Passion for Ideas. How Innovators Create and Shape Our World, 87-105. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press.

2002. (with W. Brian Arthur, Jonathan Day, Joseph Jaworski, Michael Jung, Ikujiro Nonaka, Peter M. Senge) Illuminating the Blind Spot. Leadership in the Context of Emerging Worlds, Summary Paper on an Ongoing Research Project. In: Leader to Leader, Spring 2002.
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2001. Illuminating the Blind Spot. In: Leader to Leaders, Spring 2002.
(w W. Brian Arthur, Jonathan Day, Joseph Jaworski, Michael Jung, Ikujiro Nonaka, Peter M. Senge)

2001. Self-transcending knowledge: Sensing and Organizing Around Emerging Opportunities. In: Journal of Knowledge Management, Special Issue on Tacit Knowledge Exchange and Active Learning.

2001.(w U. Versteegen, K. Kauefer) The Pentagon Praxis. In: Reflections: The SoL Journal on Knowledge, Learning and Change (Cambridge, Mass.). Vol. 2, no. 1, pp 29-40
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2001. (with Peter Senge) Community Action Research. In: Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury (eds.), Handbook of Action Research. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications.
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2000. Presencing: Learning from the Future as it Emerges. On the Tacit Dimension of Leading Revolutionary Change. Paper presented at the Conference on Knowledge and Innovation, May 25-26, 2000., Helsinki School of Economics, Finland.
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2001. Self-transcending Knowledge: Organizing Around Emerging Realities. In: I. Nonaka and D.J. Teece (eds.) Managing Industrial Knowledge: New Perspectives of Knowledge-based Firms, pp. 68 – 90. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications.

2001. Conversation with Khoo Boon. Interview by C. Otto Scharmer. In: Reflections: The SoL Journal on Knowledge, Learning and Change (Cambridge, Mass.), Vol. 2, no 3, 36-45
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2000. Leadership in the Digital Economy: Sensing and Actualizing Emerging Futures (with Joseph Jaworski) Society for Organizational Learning. Cambridge, Mass.,
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2000. (with Joseph Jaworski)  Den Nya Ledarutmaningen: nyckelkompetenser I nya företag. In: Ledmotiv, Nummer 2: 63-74.

2000. Self-transcending Knowledge: Organizing Around Emerging Realities. In Soshiki Kaaku (Organizational Science), Vol. 33, no. 3 (March): 14-29.

2000. Universities as the Birthplace for the Creating Human Being. (with K. Kaeufer). In: Reflections: The SoL Journal on Knowledge, Learning and Change (Cambridge, Mass.)

2000. Universitäten als Geburtsstätte des unternehmenden Menschen. (mit K. Kaeufer) (German Version)

2000. (with Katrin Kaeufer) Universität als Schauplatz für den unternehmerischen Menschen. Hochschulen als, Landestationen’ für das In-die-Weit-Kommen des Neunen. (Universities as the Birthplace for the Entrepreneurial Human Being) In: St. Laske, T. Scheytt, C. Meister-Scheytt, C. O. Scharmer (Hrsg.), Universität im 21. Jahrhundert, Zur Interdependenz von Vegriff und Organisation der Wissenschaft, S. 109-131. Merring: Rainer Hampp Verlag.

1999. Organizing Around Not-Yet-Embodied Knowledge.
In: G.v. Krogh, I. Nonaka, and T. Nishiguchi (eds.), Knowledge Creation: A New Source of Value, pp. 36-60. New York: Macmilian.

1998. (with Peter Senge) Jenseits von Hierarchien, in bmb+f, Bundesministerium fĂĽr Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie 2/1998. (Published by the German Ministry for Education, Science, Research and Technology).

1997. Rudolf Steiner: History as Development Towards Emancipation and Freedom. In: J. Galtung and S. Inahyatullah (eds.), Macro History and Macro Historians: Perspectives on Individual, Social, and Civilizational Change, 90–97. Westport, Conn.: Praeger

1997. Auguste Comte: The Law of the Three Stages. In: J. Galtung and S. Inahyatullah (eds.), Macro History and Macro Historians: Perspectives on Individual, Social, and Civilizational Change, 54–60. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.

1997. Â Max Weber: History as Interplay and Dichotomy of Rationalization and Charisma. In: J. Galtung and S. Inahyatullah (eds.), Macro History and Macro Historians: Perspectives on Individual, Social, and Civilizational Change, pp. 84-89. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.Â

1997. Was ist Personal Mastery? 21 Thesen. Zwischen Selbstführung und Persönlichkeitsentfaltung (What Does Personal Mastery Mean? 21 Propositions). In: R. Benedikter (Hrsg.), Wirtschaft und Kultur in Gespräch. Zukunftsperspektiven der Wirtschaftskultur, S. 112-123. Bozen: Verlag Alpha und Beta.

1997. (with Peter Senge) Von "Learning Organizations zu "Learning Communities": Ăśber die Produktionsbedingungen gemeinsam hervorgebrachten Wissens (From Learning Organizations to Learning Communities: On the Conditions of Cogenerating Knowledge). In: Heinrich v. Pierer und Bolko von Oetinger (Hrsg.), Wie kommt das Neue in die Welt? S. 99-111. MĂĽnchen: Hanser Verlag.

1996. (with Peter Senge) Infrastrukturen für lernende Organisationen (Infrastructures for Learning Organizations). In: Zeitschrift für Führung und Organisation, Heft 1, S.32–36.

1994. Kopf, Herz und Hand. Die Anforderungen eines zukunftsfähigen Wohlstandsmodells an die Universitäten (Head, Heart and Hand: Requirements of the New Sustainability Model from Universities). In: Politische Ökologie, Heft 39, November/Dezember, S.51–54.

1994. Neues Wohlstandsmodell als Bildungsaufgabe (New Welfare Models as an Educational Task). In: Franz-Th. Gottwald et al. (Hrsg.), Bildung und Wohlstand, Auf dem Weg zu einer verträglichen Lebensweise, S. 14-25. Wiesbaden.

1993. Ästhetik als Kategorie strategischer Führung (Aesthetics as a Category of Strategic Leadership) . In: Bankspegal, Februar 1993, 1-2 (Part 1) and März 1993, 7-9 (Part II).

Working Papers:

2002. (with Katrin Kaeufer) Universities as the Birthplace for the Entrepreneurial Human Being.In: Reflections: The SoL Journal on Knowledge, Learning, and Change (Cambridge, Mass.).

2001. Illuminating the Blind Spot: Leadership in the Context of Emerging Worlds. Summary Paper on an Ongoing Research Project. (with W. Brian Arthur, Jonathan Day, Joseph Jaworski, Michael Jung, Ikujiro Nonaka, Peter M. Senge)

2001. Building Ba to Enhance Knowledge Creation and Innovation at Large Firms. Hitotsubashi University and MIT Sloan School of Management.

2000. Presencing: Learning from the Future as it Emerges: On the Tacit Dimension of Leading Revolutionary Change. Paper presented at the Conference on Knowledge and Innovation, May 25-26, 2000, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland.

2000. (with Joseph Jaworski) Leadership in the Digital Economy: Sensing and Actualizing Emerging Futures. Society for Organization Learning, Cambridge, Mass., and Generon Consulting, Beverly, Mass.