Author(s): Peter Senge, Joseph Jaworski, C Otto Scharmer & Betty Sue Flowers

Business Finance Management

How would the world change if we learned to access, individually and collectively, our deepest capacity to sense and shape the future? This is just one of the questions posed by the authors of a book that combines unusual personal honesty with rigorous critical thinking. Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future gives the reader an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations held over a year and a half, Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski, and Flowers explore their own experiences and those of one hundred and fifty scientists and social and business entrepreneurs in an effort to explain how profound collective change occurs. They articulate a new way of seeing the world, and of understanding our part in creating it-as it is and as it might be. Radical and hopeful, Presence synthesises leading-edge thinking, first-hand knowledge, and ancient wisdom to explore the living fields that connect us to one another, to life more broadly, and, potentially, to what is "seeking to emerge." Seven capacities underlie our ability to see, sense, and realize new possibilities. Developing these capacities accesses a deeper level of learning that is the key to creating change that serves the whole-ourselves, our organizations, and the communities of which we are a part. First published 2005. About the Author: Peter Senge is author of the widely acclaimed Fifth Discipline series. Senge is globally recognised as one of the most innovative thinkers about management and leadership. C. Otto Scharmer is a lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Joseph Jaworski is author of the critically acclaimed Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership. Betty Sue Flowers is the director of the Johnson Presidential Library and Museum. Other Links: http://www.solonline.or Reviews: "Presence is a timely and altogether important book. Drawing on a leading-edge understanding of human learning and awareness, it offers a simple but effective gateway to our capacity to become change agents of the future - in business, work and relationships. Finding our presence is finding the key to creative change and to our own future." - Ken Wilber, A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science, and Spirituality First published 2005.