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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Theory U."”.
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Sparking cultural transformation through dialogue
… Conversations; transformative learning theory; Theory U; presence; presencing; integrative values
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Making Leadership Development Accessible Through Reflexive, First-Person Practice: Increasing Awareness of Interconnection, Wise Action, and Conscious Living
… by an Indigenist approach of relationality, Theory U presencing, and Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry. Relevant literature investigated three interconnected aspects of how individuals come to know and act in the world, including how we construct knowledge through worldview and ways …
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Leadership Programs Designed to Develop Creative Leaders : a Multi-Case Study
… at all three sites aligned with Scharmer’s Theory U. This theory considers creative leadership to be a living system that accesses everyone within the group. Such an approach is highly effective and relevant due to its focus on aligning the leader to their authentic self. Theory U provides a …
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THE SOCIAL MEDIA ROLE IN FORMING POLITICAL AWARENESS AMONG IRAQI YOUTH
This thesis uses the uses and gratifications theory (U&G) to understand the relationship between social media use and political knowledge and participation among Iraqi youth during the October revolution in 2019. This study investigates the role of social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter) in …
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Unlocking 'fixed narratives' in the pursuit of social innovation
… on influences from three practice-based methods: Theory U, human-centred design and elements of mindfulness practices. They were designed to prioritise story creation by multiple storytellers from inside the case study context, encourage the exploration of both negative and positive aspects of an …
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Presencing Place: an enquiry into the knowing and shaping of place through expanded art practices
… place with reference to Otto Scharmers Theory U and a creative approach of letting come born out of Heidegger’s central concern Being or ‘Dasein’. The approaches to practices are then described through methods of tuning into place, the potential for a better place that is embodied in the …
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Forysta í nýjum heimi
… eins og hann er. Kenning U í leiðtogafræðum (e. Theory U) getur upplýst leiðtogann um hvernig hann á að þjálfa forystuhæfileika sína og hvernig kenninguna má nota við raunhæfar aðstæður. U-ferlið er eins konar leiðarakort til að auðvelda einstaklingum að stíga inn í mikilsverðar breytingar og …
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A model for teaching green information systems in higher education
… of Butler’s Model of Green IS and the Scharmer’s Theory U to inform the design. The goal of the curriculum intervention was to design a model with outputs of key Green IS technical and social competences. The intention was also to create an impact with a reduced Carbon Footprint at UCT, despite …
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Use of and information seeking behaviors on Facebook among Illinois farmers and farm families
… use of the modified propositions of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model to determine farmers’ acceptance and use of Facebook. To ascertain information seeking behaviors, the tenets of the Comprehensive Model of Information Seeking (CMIS) was applied. The precepts …
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Beyond Biracial: The Complexity of Identity Construction for Women with One Black and One White Parent
<p>In the United States, the post-Civil Rights Movement era changed forever the social perceptions about race and the self-perceptions of people who are born with mixed racial origin. Choosing to identify as mixed race in America inevitably leads to a racial cross-examination linked to America’s …
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Basic factors in the growth of mind and self. Analysis and reconstruction of G.H. Mead’s theory
U of I Only Restriction set for Item 110533 on 2019-04-15T16:10:14Z with date 2056-01-01 by fschaef2@illinois.edu.
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Reaching for the Stars: A Constructivist Investigation of Astrology as a Tool for Self-Discovery in a New Age of Leadership
… The study utilized a constructivist grounded theory perspective and an interview-based methodology with both astrologers and their clients to explore the phenomenon of astrological practice as a tool for leader development.</p>
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Imagination in the public domain: The case of the homeless workers movement (MTST) in São Paulo, Brazil
… of a triple loop of learning to planning theory and practice by focusing on the connection between imagination and democracy. Toward that goal, I integrate the ideas of future as a source of learning (Scharmer, 2009) and future as a space of struggle between the opening up and closing down …
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An examination, planning and control & the management process, to better performance and profitability or: The management process to improve performance for better profitability
Everest and Blanc (E&B) is at a crossroad. It grew from a ‘mom and pop’ operation into a small professional firm and plateaued. Thus, there is a desire to bring about operation efficiency, followed by expansion of the company. In order to be successful, a systematic decision making process is …