Given the broad dimensionality of our work, we engage and draw upon a wide variety of theories, practitioners and resources. We offer these to assist you in your own personal and professional development. You will find books, TED Talks, websites and articles.

Human Development
Suzanne Cook-Greuter, MAP maturity model, web site:
The Leadership Circle (profile) web site: Descriptive article:TLC comparison with other 360s
William Torbert web site:
Leadership Development Profile web site:
The Selected Works of William R. Torbert web site:
Robert Kegan web site (1), web site (2)
Kegan’s theory of Adult Development web site (A), and,presentation (B) on Immunity to Change
 Books:

Bill Torbert and Associates. Action Inquiry – The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership (Berrett-Koehler, 2004)
Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey. How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work (Jossey-Bass, 2001)
Robert Kegan. In Over Our Heads (Harvard University Press, 1994)
Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey. Immunity to Change (Harvard Business Press, 2009)
The Arbinger Institute. Leadership and Self-Deception (Barrett-Koehler Publishers, 2010)
Sam M. Intrator and Megan Scribner. Leading from within (Jossey-Bass, 2007)

DEVELOPMENT INSTRUMENTS
Print (a profile), web site:
Genos International, web site: Emotional intelligence, motivation & engagement
Learning in Action Technologies, web site: Emotional Intelligence
Enneagram, web site:
Books:

Ron Short. A Special Kind of Leadership – The Key to Learning Organizations (Learning in Action Technologies, 1991)
Jean Gebser. The Ever-Present Origin (Ohio University Press, 1985)
J. T. Fraser. Of Time Passion and Knowledge (Princeton University Press, 1990)

MEANING MAKING and LEARNING

Jeremy Rifkin, The Empathic Civilization, web site:
Victor Frankl, Search for Meaning, web site:
Michael Shermer, Beliefs, a TED Talk, web site:
Dan Pink, What motivates us… web site:

LEARNING STYLES
David Kolb web site:

Experiential Learning: Methods & Benefits – web site

LEARNING THEORY
Transformative Learning Theory web site:

INTEGRAL THEORY
Introduction to Integral Theory, web site:
Integral Institute, web site:
Philosophy of Holonics, web site:
Books:

Steve McIntosh. Integral Consciousness (Paragon House, 2007)

SPIRAL DYNAMICS
General information — an overview What is Spiral Dynamics..and this web site:
The work of Clare Graves, web site: Read PDF here: The Designer’s Role in Facilitating Sustainable Solutions – Wahl Baxter 2008

Books:

Don Beck and Chris Cowan, Spiral Dynamics (Blackwell, 1996)

PERSPECTIVES ON ECOLOGY
Human ecology is the interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary study of the relationship between humans and their natural, social, and built environments. Wikipedia  (human ecology)

SHIFTING PARADIGMS
Johan Rockstrom, a TED Talk, web site:
Mathew Taylor, 21st Century Enlightenment, a TED Talk, web site:
Michael Pawlyn, Bio-mimicry in design, a TED Talk, web site
Juan Enriquez, Mind-boggling Science, a TED Talk, web site:

CORPORATE LIFE-CYCLES and STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS
Ichak Adizes, web site: web site:
Books:

Patrick Hoverstadt. The Fractal Organization (Wiley, 2008)

DESIGN….DESIGN THINKING
IDEO, web site:
The Shopping Cart “designing” web site:
Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From, a TED Talk, web site:
Matt Ridley, When Ideas Have Sex, a TED Talk, web site:
Books:

Daniel H. Pink. A Whole New Mind (Riverhead Books, 2005)
Harold G. Nelson and Erik Stolterman. The Design Way (Educational Technology Publications, 2003)
Warren Berger. Glimmer (Random House Canada, 2009)
Matthew Frederick.101 Things I Learned in Architecture Studio, (MIT Press, 2007)
Tim Brown. Change by Design (Harper Collins Publishers, 2009) Tim’s blog: web site: Tim’s TED Talk, web site: Summaries from Tim’s book: Change By Design (Tim Brown), Design Thinking and YOU, Design Thinking and Your Organization

LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATION DESIGN
Tom Wujec – The Marshmallow Challenge, a TED Talk, web site: Doing Good by Knowing Who You Are — The instrumental self as an agent of change; in OD Practitioner, Vol 36, No. 3, 2004 …read PDF here: Self as Source -Seashore – ODN A ‘white paper’ highlighting the importance of leadership ‘soft skills’ — read PDF here: Leadership Soft Skills

Books:

Gervase R. Bushe. Clear Leadership (Davies-Black, 2001)
John P. Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead. Buy-in (Harvard Business Review Press, 2010)
Susan Scott. Fierce Leadership (Broadway Business, 2009)
Bill Joiner and Stephen Josephs. Leadership Agility (Wiley, 2007)
Jefferey Goldstein. The Unshackled Organization – Facing the Challenge of Unpredictability Through Spontaneous Reorganization (Productivity Press, 1994)
Kevin Cashman. The Pause Principle (Barrett-Koehler Publishers, 2012) view this clip
Sam M. Intrator and Megan Scribner. Leading from within (Jossey-Bass, 2007)
The Arbinger Institute. Leadership and Self-Deception (2010) …If you are interested to explore this book more, you can download this 11-page PDF summary here.

COMPLEXITY
Eric Berlow, a TED Talk, web site:

SYSTEMS and SYSTEMS THINKING
Mental Model Musings web site:
The basics and some Tools web site:
Images representing systems thinking web site:
Waters Foundation, web site:
Linda Booth Sweeney, web site:
Books:

Barry Oshry. Seeing Systems (Berrett-Koehler, 1995)

ENGAGING HUMAN SYSTEMS — PERSPECTIVES and METHODOLOGIES
Appreciative Inquiry web site:
World Café web site:
Theory U web site:
Books:

C. Otto Scharmer. Theory U (Society for Organizational Learning, 2007)
Peggy Holman, et al. The Change Handbook (Berrett-Koehler, 2007)
Peggy Holman. Engaging Emergence (Berrett-Koehler, 2010)
Kathleen Ryan and Geoff Bellman, Extraordinary Groups – How Ordinary Teams Achieve Amazing Results (Jossey-Bass, 2009) web site:
Ralph D. Stacey. Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations (Routledge, 2001)
Patricia Shaw and Ralph Stacey, eds. Experiencing Risk, Spontaneity and Improvisation in Organizational Change (Routledge, 2006)
Patricia Shaw. Changing Conversations in Organizations (Routledge, 2002)
Douglas Griffin and Ralph Stacey, eds. Complexity and the Experience of Leading Organizations (Routledge, 2005)
Christina Baldwin. Calling the Circle (Bantam Books, 1994)
Joanna Macy. Coming Back to Life (New Society Publishers, 1998)
Charles Garfield, et al. Wisdom Circles (Hyperion, 1998)
Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, et al. Living Deeply (New Harbinger Publications, 2007)
Frances Westley, et al. Getting to Maybe (Random House Canada, 2006)
Margaret J. Wheatley. Turning to One Another (Berrett-Koehler, 2002)

INTERCONNECTIONS WITH OUR VIEWS, VALUES AND PRACTICES
William Ury, Negotiation, a TED Talk web site:
The Natural Step web site:
Graphic Recording, Lisa Arora web site:
Books:

Ervin Laszlo. Science and the Akashic Field (Inner Traditions, 2004)
Rupert Sheldrake. The Presence of the Past (Park Street Press, 1995)
Candace B. Pert. Molecules of Emotion (Scribner, 1997)
Bruce Lipton. The Biology of Belief (Mountain of Love, 2005)
Peter Block. The Answer to How is Yes—Acting on What Matters (Berrett-Koehler, 2002)
Peter Block. Community – The Structure of Belonging (Berrett-Koehler, 2008)
Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander, The Art of Possibility – Transforming Professional and Personal Life (Harvard Business School Press, 2000)

OTHER PEOPLE and IDEAS THAT INSPIRE US

Robert Fritz. The Path of Least Resistance—Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life (Random House, 1989 Revised)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Creativity: Flow and the psychology of discovery and invention (Harper Collins, 1996)
The nature of growth… Fibonacci Cycle web site (1) , web site (2)