Theory U and Presencing for an Integral World
Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer in the MIT Management Sloan School and co-founder of the Presencing Institute. He chairs the MIT IDEAS program for cross-sector innovation and introduced the concept of “presencing”—learning from the emerging future—in his bestselling books Theory U and Presence (the latter co-authored with P. Senge et al). He is co-author […]
Integral Futurology: What Will Happen to the World
The world is at a bifurcation point now, this is already universally recognized. But what is this point? What scenarios are foreseen after the fork? To understand this, we shall look at the whole history of mankind from the point of view of integral theory and see that similar forks had happened before repeatedly. And […]
Economic Crisis: Catalyst for Planetary Awakening?
We are living through a period of enormous economic, geopolitical and technological changes: inflation and a cost-of-living crisis; financial instability, volatile crypto-currencies and emerging Central Bank Digital Currencies; China and the BRICS nations’ historic challenge to the American-led economic and geopolitical order; an epochal shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy; an explosion of Artificial […]