Reading List for Jun'09

After hectic business trips to Europe and to Japan in the last 6weeks, life is back to normal. Here are the books I plan to read this month. I tried putting out a summary of learning from each book and frankly failed. Reading is the easiest thing, summarizing requires lot more patience and skill. Here is the list for this month:

Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges
A mentor of mine asked me to read this book. This book has been rated very high in management/leadership and organization development circles. In this book, the author Otto Scharmer proposes a new model for learning and understanding and leading profound change. Instead of analyzing the past to learn, the focus is on learning from and bringing into life the best of all future possibilities. The author argues that behind our blind spots lies the possibilities to understand what we may be and what kind of a future we can create -using our Full Potential - a process the author calls Presencing. I badly needed this book for a workshop that I'd be co-facilitating, under the aegis of SoL South Foundation and a cousin of mine was kind enough to bring this fat book from the US. Thank you Sushma.


The Secret
Addition of this book for this month's reading is an afterthought. I've been hearing/reading a lot on the "law of attraction" and some variants of the same theme ("ask and it shall be given", "power of deliberate intent", for example). I picked up this book out of sheer curiosity. You are expected to learn the secrets of almost everything in life - money, health, relationships, happiness. Why not learn the secrets?





Thank you very much,


RamP!
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