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Action Design Associates
Run by Fieldbook contributors Bob Putnam, Diana Smith and Phil McArthur, a great site for anyone interested in action science or organizational learning.

 

Ask Dr. Science
Home of "America's foremost authoritarian," and a fine example of the "unlearning organization" wrapped up in a single individual.

 

Robert J. Brodnick, Jr.
Rob for short is currently Director of Institutional Research and Planning at Shippensburg University, and has been since April 1994.

Creative Learning Exchange
Encourages a systems view of education and learning; facilitates communication among teachers and schools; a rich resource of teaching material.

Doubleday/Currency
Summaries and info on the latest books and ideas available from this publisher of cutting-edge business books, including The Fifth Discipline, The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, and The Age of Heretics.

 

Fast Company
The feisty magazine's site looks alot like the print version - busy and full of everything you could want. Besides reading articles and searching archives, you can sign up for a free newsletter and join a "company of friends" here.

 

Faith Florer
Cognitive scientist married to Art Kleiner, manages a web site on software for experimental psychology at New York University.

Global Business Network
Is a unique membership organization specializing in scenario thinking and collaborative learning about the future. GBN brings these members together in varied ways to explore driving forces and uncertainties and to integrate these insights into "scenarios" - alternative storesi about the future. GBN members Louis van der Merwe, Adam Kahane and Kees van der Heijden contributed to the Fieldbook and/or The Dance of Change.

 

Innovation Associates of Canada/ Broadreach Innovations
The consulting firm co-founded by Charles Kiefer and Peter Senge, now based solely in Canada, has a web page with access to articles, practices, and consulting information.

 

Institute for Learning and Research
IRL is one of the "new model" research-in-action organizations that sees learning as fundamentally a social activity embedded in the practices of communities of people. Their web site gives access to research and articles many in the learning organization community would find particularly interesting. One of Director Peter Henschel's newest articles, "The Manager's Work in the New Economy" can be read here.

Jim McAbee's "Learning Connection"
Based in Greenwood, South Carolina, Jim is a longstanding practitioner of community-building through total quality and learning organization approaches. "What you will see here reflects many of my interests and commitments."

 

National Association of Secondary School Principles
Over 40,000 members who represent more than 50 nations.

 

National School Board Association
Also published the American School Board Journal, School Board News, and hosts annual conference.

 

National Staff Development Council
A group of 10,000 who work in schools and are in charge of improving student learning, teaching, leadership, organizational change, and staff learning.

 

New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program

 

Newfield Consulting Group
Based on the work of Humberto Maturana and Rafael Echeverria, with offices in several countries.

 

Nicholas Brealey
Is the publisher of The Fifth Discipline, the Fieldbook, and The Dance of Change in the British commonwealth, and a growing body of work on management change and business in Asia.

Pegasus Communications
Hosts the annual Systems Thinking in Action conference. Their home page includes the work of many contributors to the Fieldbook and The Dance of Change.

 

Purple Shark Transcriptions
Transcription service with intelligence and heart, run by long-time Fieldbook Project friend Sharon Harkey. Purple Shark provided all the transcripts for the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, The Dance of Change, and the forthcoming Schools That Learn.

 

Robert Fritz, Inc.
The author of many books, including the seminal The Path of Least Resistance, and a major contributor to the development of discipline of "Personal Mastery," Fritz maintains a web site devoted to structural dynamics.

 

Society for Organizational Learning
Membership organization dedicated to developing organizational learning through a consortium of researchers, consultants, and practitioners.

 
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