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Capitalism 3.0: An Institutional Revolution In the Making | MIT World. Theory U – The 1st Proposition. I am a huge fan of C. Otto Scharmer’s Theory U. It is one of the most powerful frameworks for understanding the essential shifts we need to make as we step into this paradigm shift. Scharmer sums up his Theory U with seven propositions, I’m going to write a series of blog posts taking a closer look at each of them: (1) The essence of 21st-century leadership is about shifting the fields of collective awareness and intention. The leader’s work in our age is to shift the fields of attention from ego-system awareness to eco-system awareness. “We attend this way, therefore it emerges that way.”

That’s a radical first sentence. Certainly we can expect that anyone who is called to authentic leadership is also called to actually stand in that new place of awareness and intention. When I read eco-system awareness, I feel invited to see the whole as part of the whole. As always, I continue to ask the question – what does this all mean to those of us engaged in the work of social transformation? Society for Organizational Learning.

Otto Scharmer's Blog 3.6 Beta 4. Presencing Institute 3.6 Beta 4. The Presencing Institute Community 3.6 Beta 4. La théorie U - résumé en français.