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The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World Paperback – April 6, 2010

by Peter M. Senge (Author), Bryan Smith (Author), Nina Kruschwitz (Author),
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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Crown Business; 1 edition (April 6, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0385519044
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385519045
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.9 x 9.2 inches
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4.0 out of 5 starsValue Priced, Superb Overview, Isolated from Other Literatures
By Robert David STEELE Vivas HALL OF FAMETOP 1000 REVIEWER on August 28, 2008
Format: Hardcover
At the end of this review following the links to other recommended books, I specify why this book receives four stars instead of five. Shortly I will load several images that will augment my written review, a couple of them recreated from this book, a couple my own original work.

I found this book absorbing, and while I recognized many many areas where the authors could have identified and respected the work of others more explicitly, I also found this to be the single best book for a manager of any business, any non-profit, any educational institution, any citizen advocacy group, with respect to the changing paradigm of business from industrial era obsess on profit and waste wantonly, to the information era of integrated full life cycle with total transparency of all costs (social, environmental, and financial) and ZERO footprint on Earth and society. There is ample original work from the authors, and this book is priced just right as a vehicle for energizing groups of any kind.

Following from my extensive notes:

+ A handful of top global businesses "get it" and have been pioneering footprint free zero waste business model: BP, GE, Coca-Cola, Dupont, even Nike.

+ Non-governmental organizations (NGO) know more about local needs and the emerging marketplace (four billion of the five billion poor, I am very disconcerted to see the business world "writing off" the one billion extreme poor) than any market "intelligence" firm.

+ With credit to Jared Diamond, I read for the first time about the unreal financial reality "bubble," and the "real real" world bubble that is catching up with it.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsConversations and collaboration are the way forward
By John Inman on July 2, 2008
Format: Hardcover
This long awaited book fulfills all of my expectations for a manual to help us create the conversations and collaboration necessary to reclaim our world's health. Over the years there have been quite a few high impact books helping us understand the extent of the challenges we face as we look forward to create a sustainable world. "The Necessary Revolution" steps forward and outlines how to create the partnerships that are needed to unleash the pent up creativity that millions of team members across the world and in all enterprises have been holding back. Peter Senge and team from his organization Society for Organizational Learning come at the subject as world leaders in the austere world of business. It is going to be very difficult for business leaders across the world to read this work and write it off as rantings of an extremist. Peter is one of the top business minds in the world and I do not believe this work can be easily ignored.

For those of us who are disbursed across enterprises and feel like we have little impact on moving our enterprises towards a more sustainable future, this book provides outstanding case studies of work being done across the world by enterprises large and small. Some of the work and the visions of the leaders chronicled in this text are not only enlightening but surprising. After many chapters a "toolbox" is provided to help set the stage for the conversations and collaboration needed to move change forward. And of course, all of this work is set in a framework of systems thinking which is so necessary to be able to see beyond the silos so many are bound by.

"The Necessary Revolution" should be required reading for community leaders of all types, NGO, religious, Government, and corporate alike.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsNot Systems Thinking
By Ana Kritis on August 5, 2008
Format: Hardcover
The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and organizations are working together to create a Sustainable World. (TNR)
Value of TNR: The theme of TNR is that we must shift beyond being reactive in our solutions approach, merely seizing short term solutions, and move to deep thinking to really make a difference. I strongly agree. The book includes many stories of what organizations and individuals are doing to try to be more proactive. The "Take, Make, Waste" mode of the last 60 years is no longer viable and some folks are digging deeper in their thinking and getting beyond symptom solutions. It is the right message but with insufficient thinking on the part of the authors on what it would really take to accomplish that deep thinking. They fall into the same trap they are critiquing, working in a problem-solving mode with humans doing less harm and letting nature restore itself, but with just a more sophisticated version than they challenge.
Shortfall: The authors point out that what got us into the mess we are in is working from a Cartesian view of reality that sees the world as things divided into parts and pieces that are not connected. As a result we have outsourced solutions by specialty, allow the problem creator to side step the deep dive to get to the underlying causes. However, TNR is working with an approach to Systems Thinking based on the Study of machines and computers that originated at MIT with Jay Forrester in the Engineering and Cybernetic Systems School in the 1950s. Forrester moved to the Sloan Management School and took his Systems Dynamic Theory with him. It is still a part of the Sloan School and has been adopted by the SOL Sustainability Consortium unrevised from its computer science basis and applied directly to human systems.Read more ›
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People are just waking up to Global Warming, population explosion, dwindling resources, and waste, waste, waste. Read more

Published 23 months ago by Linda
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent book

Basic theories are rather well known (after previous Senge’s publications), but there are excellent case studies (of single companies, of cooperation between NGO and companies,... Read more

Published 23 months ago by anna zgrzywa
5.0 out of 5 starsAwe inspiring book

I bought the book and the audible to accompany it. I feel energized to make a difference in my life and company

Published on October 27, 2013 by Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 starsAn excellent primer on who is working to create much needed change,...

Peter Senge is a master thinker about organizational dynamics. In this book, he puts his prodigous abilities to work both telling stories of the good fight being fought and won,... Read more

Published on October 7, 2013 by drophamilton
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I enjoyed this book immensely. It got me thinking and rethinking about all that I can do to be a better global citizen. Read more

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