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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.
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Dr. Science
Home of "America's foremost authoritarian," and a fine example
of the "unlearning organization" wrapped up in a single individual.
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Robert
J. Brodnick, Jr.
Rob for short is currently Director of Institutional Research and Planning
at Shippensburg University, and has been since April 1994.
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Creative
Learning Exchange
Encourages a systems view of education and learning; facilitates communication
among teachers and schools; a rich resource of teaching material.
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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.
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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.
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Faith
Florer
Cognitive scientist married to Art Kleiner, manages a web site on software
for experimental psychology at New York University.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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National
Association of Secondary School Principles
Over 40,000 members who represent more than 50 nations.
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National
School Board Association
Also published the American School Board Journal, School Board News,
and hosts annual conference.
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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.
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New York
University's Interactive Telecommunications Program
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Newfield
Consulting Group
Based on the work of Humberto Maturana and Rafael Echeverria, with
offices in several countries.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Society
for Organizational Learning
Membership organization dedicated to developing organizational learning
through a consortium of researchers, consultants, and practitioners.
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