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Volume 1, Number 1

On Learning and the Systems that Facilitate It
By Russell L. Ackoff

Commentary by William Altier

Commentary by Vincent Barabba

CLASSIC: Metanoic Organizations in the Transition to a Sustainable Economy
By Charles F. Kiefer and Peter Senge

Learning for Operational Excellence: A Manager’s Story

By David Berdish

Kurt Lewin’s Change Theory in the Field and in the Classroom: Notes Toward a

Model of Managed Learning

By Edgar H. Schein

Strategy and Learning

By Arie de Geus

The Biology of Business: Transformation Through Conservation

By Humberto Maturana and Pille Bunnell

On Language as a Mirror

By Stella Humphries

Volume 1, Number 2

Organizing Knowledge

By John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid

Collaborative Learning:

A Core Capability for Organizations in the New Economy

By Dori Digenti

Biology of Business: Love Expands Intelligence

By Humberto Maturana and Pille Bunnell

Volume 1, Number 3

Learning In and About Complex Systems

By John D. Sterman

Systems Change in Education

By Peter M. Senge

Strategic Alliances: Finding the Hidden Leverage for Success

By Jennifer M. Kemeny and Joel Yanowitz

Conversation with Gary Hamel

By C. Otto Scharmer

Volume 1, Number 4

Climbing Mount Sustainability

By Ray Anderson

On the Plural Attentions Necessary for Catalyzing and Implementing Sustainable Development

By Hilary Bradbury

The LAKES Story

By Marlow Hotchkiss, Colleen Kelley, Robert Ott, and John F. Elter

Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously: Is the Emergence of "Sustainable” PracticesmMeaningful?

By John R. Ehrenfeld

Rethinking Corporate Responsibility

By Sir John Browne

Conversation with Paul Hawken

By Nick Robins

Becoming a Sustainable Species

By Pille Bunnell and Nicholas Sonntag

Volume 2, Number 1

A Laboratory in Democracy: Revisiting the Great Peace March

By Steve Brigham

Organizational Leadership in the Twenty-First Century

By Frances Hesselbein

A Conversation on Leadership

By Peter M. Senge, Ronald A. Heifetz, and Bill Torbert

Volume 2, Number 2

Local Knowledge—Global Innovation: Leveraging Distributed Expertise

By Robert S. Bauer and S. D. Noam Cook

Conversation withIkujiro Nonaka

By C. Otto Scharmer

Sharing Knowledge in Heterogeneous Environments

By Natalia Levina

Business Evolution: A Manager’s Reflection

By Barbara B. Lawton

Leveraging Change: The Power of Systems Thinking in Action

By Peter David Stroh

The Interlevel Dynamics of Systemic Learning and Change

By David Coghlan

The Call of the Time

By Judy Rodgers

Volume 2, Number 3

How to Change the World: Lessons for Entrepreneurs from Activists

By Adam Kahane

From Illness to Insight: Discovering Toxins in People and Their Organizations

By Peter J. Frost

Praxis Pentagon of Organizational Learning

By Ursula Versteegen, C. Otto Scharmer, and Katrin Käeufer

Why Change Management Needs Changing

By Richard H. Axelrod

Why Management Research Findings Are Unimplementable: An Action Science Perspective

By Michael Beer

Management Gurus and Educators

By Russell L. Ackoff

Volume 2, Number 4

Beyond the Surface

By Emily Sper

Conversation with John Kao

By C. Otto Scharmer

Learning in Performance: How a Dutch Company Transformed Itself

By Philip H. Mirvis, Karen Ayas, and George L. Roth

A Lesson from the Arts

By Robert Fritz

On Classical Music and Business – Listening, Leading, Learning

By Alf Westelius

Learning in and from Improvising: Lessons from Theater for Organizational Learning

By Dvora Yanow

Learning the Art of Neighborhood

By J. Jean Horstman and Julia Rowntree

Learning, not Logos: A New Dialogue between Arts and Business

By Julia Rowntree

Volume 3, Number 1

Twenty Years of Organizational Learning and Ethics at Hanover Insurance: Interviews with Bill O’Brien

By Barry Sugarman

How Companies BuildSocial Capital

By Sandra Waddock

Applying Systems Thinking in a Small Knowledge-based

By Tim Hickey

The Salty Line Manager and Organizational Learning: A Conversation with Nick Zeniuk

By Christine R. Day

The Impact of Transnational Institutions on Cultural Values and Vice Versa

By Edgar H. Schein

Learning to Be Complete: The Challenge of Cultural Dynamics

By Philip L. Ramsey

Four Futures for Organizing and Leading in the New Economy

By Art Kleiner

Volume 3, Number 2

Humility and Ignorance: What It Takes to Be an Effective Process Consultant

By Edgar H. Schein, Adam Kahane, and C. Otto Scharmer

Relationship-Centered Counseling

By Penelope R. Williamson, Anthony L. Suchman, John C. J. Cronin, and Diane B. Robbins

Putting Something in the Middle: An Approach to Dialogue

By Charles J. Palus and Wilfred H. Drath

Narrative Understanding

By Stephen Denning

Understanding How Systems Work through Children’s Stories

By Linda Booth Sweeney

After-Action Reviews: Linking Reflection and Planning in a Learning Practice

By Marilyn J. Darling and Charles S. Parry

Unleashing the Power of Connecting Disciplines

By Diane H. Schmalensee

Volume 3, Number 3

Creating High-Performing Organizations: A Conversation with Roger Saillant

By Karen Ayas

The Natural Emergence of Deep Learning

By Stella Eugene Humphries and Kathleen Forrest Otterman

A Mid-Life Reflection

By Bennett Bruce

An Epoch Change in Our Paradigms

By Bill O’Brien

Community Building in Business

By Philip H. Mirvis

An Exploration of the Spiritual Heart of Human Science Inquiry

By David Cooperrider and Frank J. Barrett

Changing How We Work Together

By Peter M. Senge and Margaret Wheatley

Spirituality as a Global Organizing Potential

By Diana Whitney

Volume 3, Number 4

Strategies for the Bottom of the Economic Pyramid: India as a Source of Innovation

By C. K. Prahalad

Six Societal Learning Concepts for a New Era of Engagement

By Steven J. Waddell

Globalization’s Challenge: Attuning the Global to the Local

By Jeff Gates

Capitalism’s "Genius”? Saving the Market from Itself

By Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe

Learning Beyond Fear: New Events Seeking New Habits

By Karin Eyben, Libby Keys, Duncan Morrow, and Derick Wilson

Leadership, Networks, and Large-Scale Change: Topics Emerging from SoL’s Research Greenhouse II

By Barry Sugarman

Volume 4, Number 1

CLASSIC: Towards a "Truly” Scientific Management: The Concept of Organization Health

By Warren G. Bennis

The Corporation as a Community, Not as a Corpus

By Russell L. Ackoff

Leadership Is Sourced by a Commitment to Personal Development

By Greg Merten

Leadership When Events Don’t Play by the Rules

By Karl Weick

Young Leaders’ Forum in Asia: Learning about Leadership, Abundance, and Growth

By Karen Ayas and Philip H. Mirvis

When Culture Matters: Processes of Organizational Learning and Transformation

By Cristiano Busco, Angelo Riccaboni, and Robert W. Scapens

Living-Asset Stewardship: How Organizational Learning Leads to Exceptional Market Returns

By Jay Bragdon and Richard Karash

"I Don’t Have Time to Think!” versus the Art of Reflective Practice

By Joseph A. Raelin

Volume 4, Number 2

Leadership Is about Setting the Tone: An Interview with Jürgen Dormann

By C. Otto Scharmer

Internal Outsiders Transform Tradition-Bound Organizations

By Ariane Berthoin Antal and Camilla Krebsbach-Gnath

Commentary by Marla Kameny

Commentary by Tom Durel

Commentary by Ariane Antal, Camilla Krebsbach-Gnath

Models and Tools for Stability and Change in Human Systems

By Ed Schein

Community Knowledge Sharing in Practice: The Eureka Story

By Daniel Bobrow and Jack Whalen

New World Wine in Old World Bottles?

By Adrian McLean and Marsha George McLean

Accelerating the Organization Design Process

By William D. Lytle

CLASSIC: Teaching Smart People How to Learn

By Chris Argyris with commentary

Commentary by Haridimos Tsoukas

Volume 4, Number 3

On Face-Work: An Analysis of Ritual Elements in Social Interaction

By Erving Goffman

Opening Doorways to a Better Life at Work: A Conversation with Bill McQuillen

By Karen Ayas

Lessons from Creating a Learning Organization

By Fredrick Simon and Ketsara Rugchart

From Performance to Presence: The Organic Nature of Learning and Change

By Michael Jones

Story, Poetry, and Metaphor: Subjective Solutions for Subjective Problems

By Annette Simmons

Jennie Butchart’s Sunken Garden

By Scott Thompson

The Four Elements of Every Successful Story

By Robert Dickman

Learning to Anneal: An Interview with Vic Leo

By George Roth

The Essence of Leadership and the Power of Networks: An Interview with Margaret Wheatley

By Alexander Schieffer

Building a Cross-Organizational Learning Community: Reflections on SoL’s Greenhouse III

By Carol Gorelick and Barry Sugarman

Volume 4, Number 4

A World in Balance?

By Bernard Lietaer

On Dialogue, Culture, and Organizational Learning

By Ed Schein

Reflective Dialogue, Life Stories, and Leadership Development

By Philip H. Mirvis and Karen Ayas

Welcoming the Feminine Dimensions of Leadership

By Judy Sorum Brown

On Being a Leader: A Conversation with Sister Mohini Panjabi

By Stella Eugene Humphries

Looking Back, Leaping Forward

By Mieko Nishimizu

Ubuntu: Reflections of a South African on Our Common Humanity

By Barbara Nussbaum

Webs, not Kevlar: Designing Sustainable Organizations

By Hilary Bradbury

Volume 5, Number 1

Creating Desired Futures in a Global Economy

By Peter M. Senge

Commentary by Sherry Immediato

Commentary by Karen Ayas

Commentary by Muhammad Yunus

Volume 5, Number 2

Cultivating a Learning Economy

By Marilyn Darling; David Meador; Shawn Patterson

Commentary by Richard T. Pascale

Response by Shawn Patterson

Volume 5, Number 3

Breathing Life into a Dying System: Recreating Healthcare from Within

Katrin Kaeufer; Claus Otto, Scharmer; Ursula Versteegen

Commentary by Dr. Gert Schmidt

Connecting Lean Manufacturing and Organizational Learning
Jamie Flinchbaugh

Leveraging Global Culture in Our Journey Toward Global Leadership Development
M.J. Jamal and Nora Hughes

Organizational Culture Change after a Merger
Rosemarie Livigni

The Rise and Fall of Collective Reflection
Cathrine Pedersen, Karina Aase, and Odd Einar Olsen

Volume 5, Number 4

Confronting the Tyranny of Management by Numbers: How Business Can Deliver the Results We Care About Most

By Thomas H. Johnson

Commentary Roger Saillant

Commentary by Jay Bragdon

Volume 5, Number 5

Living the Change You Seek: Roca’s Core Curriculum for Human Development

By Sayra Pinto, Jasson Guevara, and Molly Baldwin

Commentary by Peter M. Senge

Creating the Job of Your Dreams: Reflections on a Visit to Team Academy

By Etienne Collingon, Manfred Mack, and Laurent Marbacher

Volume 5, Number 6

A Platform for Innovation

By Frank Douglas

Commentary by Otto Scharmer

Commentary by Anthony Reese

Volume 5, Number 7

BOOK EXCERPT:Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future

Awakening Faith in an Alternative Future

By Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers

Commentary by Darcy Winslow,

Commentary by Elena Diez Pinto

Commentary by Robert Fritz

Volume 5, Number 8

Searching for Sustainability: No Quick Fix

By John Ehrenfeld

Commentary by Gregory Roscoe

Commentary by Bob Tierney

Adventures on the Way to Investing for a Triple Bottom Line

By Joan Bavaria

Profitability, Equity, and Sustainability: The Case of Socially Responsible Investing and Trillium Asset Management

By Bill Torbert

Volume 5, Number 9

Insight and Wisdom

By Charles Kiefer and Robin Charbit

Commentary by Charlie Fischer

Commentary by Miguel Oliveras

Commentary by Sherry Immediato

Volume 5, Number 10

Bringing "Mission” to Life: Corporate Inspiration from Visiting Communities in India

By Karen Ayas and Philip Mirvis

Commentary byTex Gunning

Commentary by Peter Senge