Readings

My recommended list of books and papers:

• Axelrod, R. 1984, The Evolution of Cooperation, HarperCollins Publishers, New York.
• Bohm, David (1992, 1994). Thought as a System. Routledge. London and New York.
• Capra, F. 1996, The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems, Anchor Books, Doubleday, New York.
• Capra, F. 2002, The Hidden Connections: Integrating the Biological, Cognitive, and Social Dimensions of Life into a Science of Sustainability, Doubleday, New York.
• De Geus, A. 1997, The Living Company: Habits for Survival in a Turbulent Business Environment, Harvard Business School Press, Boston.
• Ehrenzweig, Anton (1967). The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination. University Of California Press. Berkeley and Los Angeles 
• Gleick, J. 1988, Chaos: Making a New Science, Penguin Books, New York.
• Goleman, D. 1995, Emotional Intelligence, Bantam Books, New York.
• Granovetter, M. S. 1973, ‘The strength of weak ties’, American Journal of Sociology, vol. 78, no. 6, pp. 1360-1380.
• Harman, W. W. & Sahtouris, E. 1998, Biology Revisioned, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley.
• Heifetz, R. A. 1994, Leadership Without Easy Answers, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
• Heifetz, R. A. & Grashow A. & Linsky M. 2009, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics fro Changing Your Organizations and the World, Harvard Business Press, Cambridge.
• Hirshberg J. 1998, The Creative Priority: Driving Innovative Business in the Real World, HarperCollins Publishers, New York.
• Hock, D. W. 1999, Birth of the Chaordic Age, Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc., San Francisco.
• Kauffman, S.A. 1995, At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self- Organization and Complexity, Oxford University Press, New York.
• Klein, J. 2009, Working for Good, Making a Difference While Making a Living, Sounds True, Boulder, CO.
• Kuhn, T. S. 1962, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
• Lovelock, J. 1979, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Maturana, H. & Varela, F. 1980, Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 42, D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordecht.
• Meadows, D. H. 2008, Thinking in Systems, Edited by Diana Wright, Sustainability Institute, Chelsea Green Publishing, Vermont.
• Morgan, G. 1997, Images of Organizations, Sage Publications, London.
• Nonaka, S. & Takeuchi, O. 1995, The Knowledge-Creating Company, How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation, Oxford University Press, New York.
• Pascale, R. T. et al. 2000, Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The Laws of Nature and the New Laws of Business, Three Rivers Press, New York.
• Russell, P. 2000, The Global Brain Awakens: Our Next Evolutionary Leap, Element Books Limited, Boston.
• Scharmer, C.O. 2007, Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges, The Society of Organizational Learning, Cambridge, MA.
• Schrage, M. 2000, Serious Play: How the Worlds Best Companies Simulate to Innovate, Harvard Business School Press, Boston.
• Senge, P. M. 1990, The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization, Currency Doubleday, New York.
• Senge, P. M. et al. 2004, Presence: Human purpose and the field of the future, The Society of Organizational Learning Publisher, Cambridge, MA.
• Stacey, R. D. 1996, Complexity and Creativity in Organizations, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco.
• Waldrop, M. M. 1992, Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, Touchstone, New York.
• Walker, B. & Salt D. 2006, Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World, Island Press, Washington.
• Wheatley, M. J. 1992, 1994, Leadership and the New Science: Learning about Organization from an Orderly Universe, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco.
• Wheatley, M. J. & Kellner-Rogers M. 1996, 1999, A Simpler Way, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. San Francisco, CA