The Dance of Change Resource Links Sustainable Society
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Learning Organizations home page
Based at the State University of New York at Albany, with a series of links to valuable references and resources.
 

The Stanford Learning Organization Web (SLOW)
An informal network of Stanford researchers, staff, and students along with colleagues and friends from the corporate world interested in the nature and development of learning organizations.

The Program on Social and Organizational Learning at George Mason University is a nice compendium of resources and perspectives, updated by students and faculty. The site includes book reviews—the one of The Fifth Discipline raises interesting issues.

 
Books and Resources

www.learninghistories.com The home page for learning histories, with links to The Learning History Library series, and ordering information for the Field Manual for a Learning Historian.

 

WWW.learning-org.com Run by Dance of Change contributor Rick Karash, this is the grandaddy of organizational learning on-line dialogues. One of the most effective places to raise questions, test ideas, and find compatriots.

 

Bookwatch Summary by Fieldbook contributor Bill Godfrey is a database/newsletter of in-depth book reviews related to the fields of management and organizational learning. It's a great newsletter, and a useful service. The abstracts are free; the full newsletter is by subscription.

"Reviews will progressively be expanded to include references to classics in the field which predate the formation of the database as well as being updated to incorporate new books reviewed."

 

Michael McMaster's "book cafe" site devoted to books of interest for people engaged in organizational change work.

The Creativity Web is a resource center where you can find information to help you become more creative. Techniques, books, software, people, and other Internet resources are some of the things you will find here.

 
Langford's Bibliography and Resource Guide: books and resources related to quality.  

Joe Flower's "Change Project" web site has a very nice bibliography of books for change agents.

Sageplace.com has an interview with Michael McMasters, the author of another book entitled The Dance of Change, published in 1986. Though possessing a different focus, he has this to say about business: "[Corporations] are powerful but let's not give them too much power. I believe that the future of the world depends on our ability to resonate with the truth of who we as individuals and then to join together and express that truth collectively. . .Through our collective intent and mental focus, energy has been poured into the forms that now show up as these institutions - corporations and organizations - but let us not forget that they were originally created by our focused thoughts."

http://www.andybella.com/holostudy/systemEn.htm. Created by Kink Lin, of the Taiwan consulting firm HoloIcon Management, here is a systems overview of a learning organization process involving the five disciplines. He is interested in corresponding with interested readers about the implications of the "team learning" process he has developed here.

 

 
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