Theory U: Learning From the Future as It Emerges by C. Otto Scharmer

Author:C. Otto Scharmer [Scharmer, C. Otto]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Business & Economics, Organizational Behavior
ISBN: 9781605099071
Google: ZvDeTBRKmiUC
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published: 2007-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 17.1 FOUR FIELDS OF CONVERSATION

Clashing Views

In 1996 I taught a four-day workshop on art, leadership, and social transformation at Witten/Herdecke University in Germany for students, artists, and some business people. It was all pleasant enough, but then, after my brief talk, one artist said, “I didn’t understand a word you said.” I felt as if my young lecture career had reached an all-time low. After that, the then CEO of Hugo Boss, a major German clothing company, told how his sponsorship of various art institutions related to their business efforts. A theater director piped up and said that Boss’s socially responsible sponsorship was just another example of how the capitalist system exploited people and was actually part of the problem, not the solution. We clearly were in a tough debate, and I was witnessing a vivid and forceful clash of mental models or views of the world.

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