Theory U, 2nd Edition

Preface to the Second Edition: Ten Years On, Earth Rising

When this book was first published (in 2007), our daughter, Hannah, was nine years old. When this second edition comes out, she will have turned nineteen. Reflecting on this past decade and on the decade prior to it that it took me to write the first edition makes me aware of the magnitude in changes that we have seen over the past twenty years. The world has crossed—and is still crossing—a profound threshold.

What threshold am I talking about? It is personal. Relational. Institutional. Global. You can probably feel it too. My colleague and co-founder of the Presencing Institute, Kelvy Bird, who created the wonderful drawings at the beginning of this book, has captured the crossing-the-threshold ...