Congratulations on your admittance to the Masters of Arts in Organizational Leadership Program at BGI.

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1 Dear OSR Students, Congratulations on your admittance to the Masters of Arts in Organizational Leadership Program at BGI. Below is a reading list for you to complete before coming to the first session of the program at Pilgrim Firs on September 30th. Now that you have the reading list: 1. Please DO NOT order the books on the list. We are mailing the books on this reading list to you now. o OSR provides the books you will need for the program directly to you. The supplemental materials fees that you pay each quarter covers the cost your books. o Please expect to see packages at your home address shortly. The packages will be delivered by US Postal Mail or UPS and will either come directly from the OSR Program or Amazon. 2. Please DO NOT research the electronic readings available on the Channel. o As soon as you complete your online orientation with Sarah Miller, Director of Information Technology, you ll be able to access BGI s online learning portal, the Channel. o All the electronic readings are available on the channel for you to download. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the reading list. Regards, -- Leslie Chamberlain OSR Program Administrator leslie.chamberlain@bgi.edu home office

2 This set of articles, chapters, videos and poems is our way of presenting to you what we consider the fundamental/defining themes and dimensions of the learning journey of OSR 20. Our intention is to start building a common ground and a common language to talk about human systems, change, learning, and design. We suggest you go through the resources in the order presented but you may read in whatever order you choose. You are not expected to memorize information from the readings; instead we invite you to: Pay attention to what is provoked in you: What conversations start to unfold in you? What are your gut reactions to the core propositions? How are you touched in your heart and spirit? What do you feel moved to do or not do? Consider the core concepts being presented against your personal experiences of living inside organizations. What peaks your curiosity, and what bumps against your own previous knowledge? Observe how you are stretched in your conceptions of what it means to be alive, to be part of a human system, and what it might take to transform that system. If you seek to improve the health of a human system, what relationship will you need to have with yourself and with the system? Discover the network of interconnections in what might seem at first glance a random set of materials. What is the whole that you experience as you engage with all of the material to prepare yourself to enter the OSR learning experience? Notice how you learn as you engage with each article, chapter, poem, or video. What does it mean to learn? Do you learn when you agree with something; when something strikes you as different or novel; when you disagree with something; when you do not understand something? After noticing each of these reactions, what do you do next? How do you reflect on what has provoked you? How do you capture and apply your learning? Rest assured that this is a not a typical amount of reading for each month! The greater-than-average amount of preparation helps us form and learn together as we convene for the first time. Enjoy!

3 Global Oneness Project (n.d.). What would it look like? Retrieved from Link on the Channel, Course OSR 501. Senge, P. M. (2006). The fifth discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization (2nd ed.). New York: Doubleday / Currency. Read introduction to revised edition, chapters 1, 4, and 5. Book provided to OSR 20 students in Summer (OSR 501). Knowles, M. S., Holton, E., & Swanson, R. A. (2005). An andragogical theory of adult learning. In The adult learner: The definitive classic in adult education and human resource development (6th ed., pp ). Amsterdam; Boston: Elsevier. Electronic Reserve on the Channel, Course OSR 571. Weisbord, M. R. (2012). Productive workplaces: Dignity, meaning, and community in the 21 st century (3 rd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Book provided to OSR 20 students in Summer Read preface, introduction, and chapters 1 5. (OSR 501). Roberts, L. M., Spreitzer, G., Dutton, J., Quinn, R., Heaphy, E., & Barker, B. (2005). How to play to your strengths. Harvard Business Review (On-Point Reprint), pp Electronic Reserve on the Channel, Course OSR 571. Atlee, T. (2010). Something bigger than life is trying to work through us. Retrieved from Electronic Reserve on the Channel, Course OSR 571. McDonough, W. (2005). The wisdom of designing cradle to cradle. Retrieved from Click here to view the video from the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference. Link on the Channel, Course OSR 501. Hawken, P. (2007). Blessed unrest: How the largest movement in the world came into being and why no one saw it coming. New York: Viking. Read pp Electronic Reserve on the Channel, Course OSR 501. Hawken, P. (2008). Ten years in, 10 years out. Retrieved from v=ugdxnoamgui&feature=related. Electronic Reserve on the Channel, Course OSR 501. Oliver, M. (n.d). The summer day. Retrieved from Electronic Reserve on the Channel, Course OSR 571.

4 Heifetz, R. A., & Laurie, D. L. (2001, December). The work of leadership. Harvard Business Review, 79(11), (Reprinted from Harvard Business Review, 1997, January). Electronic Reserve on the Channel, Course OSR 501. Capra, F. (1996). The web of life: A new scientific understanding of living systems (1st ed.). New York: Anchor Books. Read chapter 1 and the epilogue. Book provided to students in Summer (OSR 501) (Note: Fritjof Capra will be with us during the second year). Mezirow, J. (2000). Learning to think like an adult: Core concepts of transformation theory. In J. Mezirow (Ed.), Learning as transformation: Critical perspectives on a theory in progress (1st ed., pp. 3 33). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Electronic Reserve on the Channel, Course OSR 571. Marshak, R. J. (2006). Organization development as a profession and a field. In B. B. Jones & M. Brazzel (Eds.), The NTL handbook of organization development and change: Principles, practices, and perspectives (pp ). San Francisco: Pfeiffer. Electronic Reserve on the Channel, Course OSR 501. Kabat-Zinn, J. (1994). Wherever you go there you are: Mindfulness meditation in everyday life. New York: Hyperion. Read pp Book provided to OSR 20 students in Summer (OSR 571). Orr, D. W. (2006). The design revolution: Notes for practitioners. In Design on the edge: The making of a high performance building (pp ). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Electronic Reserve on the Channel, Course OSR 501. Brown, J. (2007). Fire. In S. M. Intrator & M. Scribner (Eds.), Leading from within: Poetry that sustains the courage to lead (p. 193). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Book provided to OSR 20 students in Summer (OSR 571). Wheatley, M. J. (2006). Leadership and the new science: Discovering order in a chaotic world (3rd ed.). San Francisco: Berrett Koehler Publishers. Read introduction and chapters 1 and 9. Book provided to OSR 20 students in Summer (OSR 501). Senge, P. M. (2006). The fifth discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization (2nd ed.). New York: Doubleday / Currency. Read chapter 8. Book provided to OSR 20 students in Summer (OSR 571). Rome/Italy Helicopter Painting. Retrieved from YouTube v=-ceuoslvgw. Electronic Reserve on the Channel, Course OSR 571.

5 Jobs, S. (2005). Stanford Commencement Address. Unpublished manuscript, Palo Alto, CA. Electronic Reserve on the Channel, Course OSR 501. Mirvis, P. (2006). Revolutions in OD: The new and the new, new things. In J. V. Gallos (Ed.), Organization development: A Jossey-Bass reader (pp ). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Read pp Electronic Reserve on the Channel, Course OSR 501. Bird, A., & Osland, J. S. (2006). Making sense of intercultural collaboration. International Studies of Management & Organization, 35(4), Electronic Reserve on the Channel, Course OSR 501. Markova, D. (n.d.) I will not die an unlived life. Retrieved from Electronic Reserve on the Channel, Course OSR 571. Argyris, C. (2002). Teaching smart people how to learn. SoL Reflections, 4(2), Electronic Reserve on the Channel, Course OSR 571. Palmer, P. J. (2000). Let your life speak: Listening for the voice of vocation. San Francisco: Jossey- Bass. Read pp Book provided to OSR 20 students in Summer (OSR 571). Grace, W. J. (2011). Sharing the rock: Shaping our future through leadership for the common good. Bellevue, WA: Common Good Works. Read the opening story The Rock and chapters 1, 3, 7 and 8. Book provided to OSR 20 students in Summer (OSR 501). (Note: Bill Grace will be with us during our first week). His Holiness the Dalai Lama. (1999). Ethics for the new millennium. New York: Riverhead Books. Read pp Book provided to OSR 20 students in Summer (OSR 571). Capra, F. (2005). Systems thinking. Retrieved from Electronic Reserve on the Channel, Course OSR 501. (Note: Fritjof Capra will be with us during the second year). Buendia, A., & Morales, C. (2003). A new educational paradigm for evolving development. World Futures, 59(8), Electronic Reserve on the Channel, Course OSR 571. Laszlo A., Rowland R., Johnston T. & Taylor G. (2012). Virtual learning in a socially digitized world. World Futures: The Journal of Global Education, 68(8), Electronic Reserve on the Channel, Course OSR 571.

6 Castle, V. (2007). The trance of scarcity: Hey! Stop holding your breath and start living your life. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. Read chapters 1 4. Book provided to OSR 20 students in Summer (OSR 571). (Note: Victoria Castle will be with us during our first week). Berry, T. (2000). The great work: Our way into the future. New York: Three Rivers Press. Read pp Book provided to OSR 20 students in Summer (OSR 501).