Product Description

In this ground-breaking book, Otto Scharmer invites us to see the world in new ways.

What we pay attention to, and how we pay attention both individually and collectively is key to what we create. What often prevents us from attending or ‘being present,’ is what Scharmer calls our blind spot, the inner place from which each of us operates. Learning to become aware of our blind spot is critical to bringing forth the profound systemic changes so needed in business and society today.

First introduced in Presence, the U methodology of leading profound change is expanded and deepened in Theory U. By moving through the "U" process we learn to connect to our essential Self in the realm of presenting a term coined by Scharmer that combines the present with sensing. Here we are able to see our own blind spot and pay attention in a way that allows us to experience the opening of our minds, our hearts, and our wills. Through this process we are able to shift our awareness to allow us to connect with our best future possibility and to realize it.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #113324 in Books
• Published on: 2009-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 533 pages

About the Author
Dr. C. Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer at MIT and the founding chair of ELIAS (Emerging Leaders for Innovation Across Sectors), a program linking twenty leading global institutions from business, government, and civil society in order to prototype profound system innovations for a more sustainable world. He also is the founding chair of the Presencing Institute and a visiting professor at the Center for Innovation and Knowledge Research, Helsinki School of Economics. Scharmer has consulted with global companies, international institutions, and cross-sector change initiatives in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Customer Reviews

Huh??
This book is pure catastrophe in my view.

I simply can't see any value to it. Intellectually, his theory should make sense, and it does, but experientially it's a load of codswallop.

Scharmer's picture on the back cover exemplifies the disembodied, dryasdust anemia of his theory which simply has no relevance for spiritually whatsoever.

What is more, his theory adds nothing new. That's the aggravating thing. Many experiential writers such as Eckhart Tolle (who know what they are talking about) are able to articulate this material precisely because that is the place they are coming from.

This theory adds nothing new. It's just a cerebral, askance remodelling of the 'be one with the present moment, sink into it and then decide what to do in those circumstances' injunction. All of which is perfectly valid.

But it doesn't need to be articulated in this fashion, and it just goes to show that you can use the right words, but if the energy's not there behind them to back them up...

A small story emerging from a big book
Have found a few nuggets and I am probably at the bottom of the U and proceeding towards the ideas upturn.

This book need study and patience.