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Welcome to the SoL Knowledge Repository. Here you will find a searchable collection of publications, presentations, papers and web links that document SoL's activities and share community research and knowledge. By clicking on advanced search, you can search by category, subject and description. Use the quick links below to access selected favorites, frequently requested titles, and classic working papers.

Selected Favorites
  • "The Marblehead Letter"
    During an Executive Champions Workshop at Marblehead MA in the summer of 2002, a group of senior leaders developed this invitation to the SoL community describing an agenda for executive dialogue. 2002
  • Crown Jewels of the Repository as recommended by SoL's Research Coordinator
    This resource provides links to examples of research at SoL or made possible through SoL.
  • Presencing: Illuminating the Blind Spot of Leadership - C. Otto Scharmer
    Virtually all established learning theories are based on reflecting on experiences of the past. Here Scharmer discusses “presencing” or pre-sensing and bringing into presence one’s highest future potential. 2002
  • Creating Desired Futures in a Global Economy - Peter M. Senge
    In June 2003, 335 researchers, consultants and executives from business, government, and civil society gathered at SoL’s first Global Forum, in Helsinki, Finland. This article was adapted from Peter’s remarks at that forum. 2003
  • Looking Back, Leaping Forward - Mieko Nishimizu, Vice President, South Asia Region, The World Bank. In a keynote address from The 50th Anniversary of Japan's Bretton Woods Membership, the author describes her concern that "the future is alien to us." 2002
  • Roger Saillant on leadership - Roger Saillant
    In the immediate aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks, Roger Sallant delivered this stirring talk at SoL's Second Research Greenhouse. Video, 2001
 Frequently Requested Titles
  • Leading Learning Organizations - Peter M. Senge
    In this article, Peter discusses the three types of leadership (available but not always recognized) in organizations and the reasons why change does not necessarily need to happen from the top down. 2002
  • Personal Transformation - Peter M. Senge
    At the heart of any serious effort to alter how we operate lies a concern with three dysfunctions of our culture: fragmentation, competition, and reactiveness.
  • The Language of Systems Thinking: "Links" and "Loops" Michael Goodman, Jennifer Kemeny, Charlotte Roberts
    This article introduces reinforcing and balancing loops, the fundamental concepts behind systems thinking. The authors suggest ways to identify the linked events that create these loops and discuss the impact of “delays.”

Classic Working Papers

  • The Ecology of Leadership - Peter M. Senge
    To sustain change -- particularly change requiring new organizational capabilities and collective intelligence -- senior executives must do two things: develop personal learning strategies, and understand the context in which they work. This article describes this "ecology of leadership." 1996
  • Understanding Organizations as Learning Systems - Edwin C. Nevis, Anthony J. DiBella, and Janet M. Gould
    The authors provide a framework for examining a company, based on its "learning orientations," a set of critical dimensions to organizational learning, and "facilitating factors," the processes that affect how easy or hard it is for learning to occur. 1994

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