This course beigns with a three-day workshop. Following the workshop, it meets once per week for eight weeks.
LEC # | Day | Topics | Assignments Due |
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1 | Friday - Sunday |
Workshop Day 1: Enacted Systems-Dynamics Overview of Workshop. Workshop Day 2: Enacted Systems-Sensemaking Formation of Learning Circles. Workshop Day 3: Enacted Systems-Change Learning Circles. |
Pre-Workshop Reading Senge, P. "The Leaders' New Work: Building Learning Organizations." Sloan Management Review 32, 1 (1990): pp. 7-23. |
2 | Friday |
Change Models Role of Technology in Change. Readings: Argyris, C. "Teaching Smart People How to Learn." Harvard Business Review 5, 1991 (reprint 91301). Orlikowski, W. J. "Learning from Notes." Information Society, 9, 1993, pp.237-250. |
Reflections Paper 1 (all) |
3 | Friday |
Social Nature of Knowing Embodiment Exercise. Readings: Brown, J. S., and Duguid, P. "Balancing Act: How to Capture Knowledge Without Killing It." Harvard Business Review 5, 2000 (reprint R00309). |
Group Assignment (groups A & B) |
4 | Friday |
Sensemaking and Artifacts Embodiment Exercise. Readings: Senge, P. M. "Mental Models." In The Fifth Discipline. New York: Doubleday, 1990, pp. 174-204. Starbuck, W. H. "Why Organizations Run into Crises... and Sometimes Survive Them." In Information Technology and Management Strategy. Edited by K. C. Laudon and Jon Turner. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1989, pp. 11-33. Weick, K. E. "Cosmos and Chaos: Sense and Nonsense in Electronic Contexts." Organizational Dynamics. Autumn 1985, pp. 51-64. |
Group Assignment (groups C & D) Personal Report (groups A & B) |
5 | Friday |
Interpersonal Dimensions of Change Embodiment Exercise. Readings: Isaacs. W. Dialogue: The Art of Thinking Together. New York: Doubleday, 1999: pp. 17-48; 321-335. Weick, K. E. "Prepare Your Organization to Fight Fires." Harvard Business Review (May-Jun 1996): pp. 143-148 (reprint 96311). |
Group Assignment (groups E & F) Personal Report (groups C & D) |
6 | Friday |
Reflections Paper 2 (all) Personal Report (groups E & F) |
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7 | Friday |
Creating Space for Change Embodiment Exercise. Readings: Hotchkiss, M., C. Kelley, R. Ott, and J. F. Elter. "The Lakes Story." Reflections 1, 4 (2000): pp. 24-31. Scharmer, O., et al. Human Purpose, Institutional Transformation, and the Field of the Future [forthcoming]. Chapter TBA. |
Group Assignment (groups G & H) |
8 | Friday |
Course Themes and Reflections Review of Course Themes, Concepts, Lessons and Implications. Readings: Kofman, F., and P. Senge. "Communities of Commitment." Organization Dynamics. Autumn 1993: pp. 5-23. Senge, P. M. "Leadership in Living Organizations." In Leading Beyond the Walls. Edited by F. Hasselbein, M. Goldsmith, and I. Somerville. The Drucker Foundation, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1999. Senge, P. M., and G. Carstedt. "Innovating our Way to the Next Industrial Revolution." Sloan Management Review (Jan-Feb 2001). |
Personal Report (groups G & H) |
9 | Friday | Final Reflections Paper (all) |