The Complete Guide to Systems Thinking and Learning. Stephen G.
Haines. HRD Press. 2000.
Comprehensive Tool Kit and Reference Library on Systems Thinking and
Learning: Volume VII. Centre for Strategic Management. 2000.
The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization.
Peter M. Senge. Doubleday/Currency. 1990.
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a
Learning Organization. Peter M. Senge, et al. Currency, Doubleday. 1994.
Introduction to Systems Thinking. Daniel H. Kim. (Innovations
in Management Series). Pegasus Communications, 1999.
Leading in a Culture of Change. Michael Fullan. Jossey-Bass. 2004.
Responsible Research: A Systems Approach to Protecting Research Participants.
Institute of Medicine. Committee for Assessing the System for Protecting
Human Research Subjects. National Academy Press, 2003.
Rethinking The Fifth Discipline: Learning within the Unknowable.
Robert Louis Flood. Routledge. 1999.
Systems Thinking Basics: From Concepts to Casual Loops. Virginia
Anderson and Lauren Johnson. Pegasus Communications. 1997.
Systems Thinking Tools: A User's Reference Guide. Daniel H. Kim.
Pegasus Communications. 1995.
Videos
Building Learning Infrastructures. [1 video]. Cambridge, MA: Pegasus
Communications, 1995. 90 minutes. With: Peter M. Senge.
Synopsis: Discusses why most organizational change efforts
do not produce long-lasting change and how an infrastructure must be
in place to support an ongoing learning cycle.
Emotional Intelligence: A Cornerstone of Learning Communities.
[1 video]. Waltham, MA: Pegasus Communications, 1997. 53 minutes. With:
Daniel Goleman.
Note: Systems Thinking in Action Conference: 1997
Synopsis: "In our culture, we have tended to value purely congitive
intelligence almost to the exclusion of any other type of intelligence.
When it comes to social systems, however, where progress depends more
on the harmonious interaction among people and not just on the efficient
exchange of data and information between them, emotional intelligence
may be the gating factor for continued growth and success. In particular,
learning communities, in their evolving creation, accentuate the need
for understandng and developing emotional intelligence as one of their
foundational cornerstones."--Container
The Fifth Discipline and the Infrastructures of a Learning Organization.
[1 video]. Cambridge, MA: Pegasus Communications, 1996. 73 minutes. With:
Peter M. Senge.
Note: Power of Systems Thinking Conference: 1996.
Synopsis: Peter Senge approaches the discipline of management systems
dynamics with the viewpoint of non-control. He also discusses how to
design infrastructures with learning built into it.
From Mechanistic to Social Systemic Thinking. [1 video]. Cambridge,
MA: Pegasus Communications, 1993. 73 minutes. With: Russell Ackoff.
Synopsis: Explores the philosophies that have shaped
the current view of the world, distinguished between synthesis and analysis
and between understanding and knowledge, and reveals the key technology
of the systems age.
Infrastructures for Sustaining Transformational Change. [1 video].
Cambridge, MA: Pegasus Communications, 1995. 90 minutes. With: Peter M.
Senge, Sarita Chawla, and Michael Jones.
Synopsis: Addresses the need for organizational infrastructure
to build new knowledge and to disseminate that knowledge throughout
a company; explores the role of storytelling in creating meaning and
context.
Leveraging Successful Change Efforts: Moving System Dynamics from
the Bedroom to the Dining Room & Kitchen. [1 video]. Cambridge,
MA: Pegasus Communications, 1996. 68 minutes. With: Barry Richmond.
Synopsis: Discusses how the tools and methodology of
system dynamics can help provide guidance in the process of change enabling
efforts to remain on course and achieve enduring results.
Self-Organizing Systems: Creating the Capacity for Continuous Change.
[1 video]. Cambridge, MA: Pegasus Communications, 1997. 69 minutes. With:
Margaret J. Wheatley.
Synopsis: Contends that managers have much to learn from
complex living systems that naturally reorganize as needed in response
to environmental changes. Explores the rich promise that the application
of self-organizing systems holds as we become not just thinkers, but
conscious thinkers about living systems.
Stewardship: A Governance Strategy for the Learning Organization.
[1 video]. Cambridge, MA: Pegasus Communications, 1995. 68 minutes. With:
Peter Block.
Synopsis: "Block shares how the principles of stewardship
can help support partnership over patriarchy, service over self-interest,
and adventure over safety."
Systems Thinking: A Framework for Nurses Living In Chaos. [1 video
with guide]. Grand Rapids, MI: CPM Resource Center, 1994. 48 minutes.
With: Bonne Wesorick.
Synopsis: The health care system and the practice of
nursing is in chaos. This program will provide some direction or context
in which to make sense out of many unpredictable events that are norms
in a constantly changing, chaotic health care environment. ' Focuses
on the importance of nurses becoming 'systems thinkers' and the exploration
of key concepts and structures necessary for actualizing a systems thinking
approach in practice.
Transforming the Practice of Management. [1 video]. Cambridge,
MA: Pegasus Communications, 1991. 94 minutes. With: Peter M. Senge.
Synopsis: Senge describes his work at the MIT Organizational
Learning Center and how corporate sponsors such as Federal Express and
Ford are forging a unique partnership to put innovative management ideas
into practice.
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