Theory U, 2nd Edition

Introduction

Facing the Crisis and Call of Our Time • The Blind Spot • Entering the Field • The Archimedean Point • Shifting the Structure of Our Attention • Theory U • A New Science • Our Field Journey: This Book

We live in an era of intensifying conflicts and massive institutional failures, a time of painful endings and of hopeful beginnings. It is a time that feels as if something profound is shifting and dying while something else, as the playwright and Czech president Václav Havel once put it, wants to be born: “I think there are good reasons for suggesting that the modern age has ended. Today, many things indicate that we are going through a transitional period, when it seems that something is on the way out and something else is painfully ...