Notes

Prologue

1. The evolution of the Power Lab and many of the lessons I have learned from it are described in Leading Systems: Lessons from the Power Lab. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1999.

2. The Craigville Conference Center sits atop a bluff overlooking beautiful Nantucket Sound. For information, write to Craigville Conference Center, 39 Prospect Avenue, Craigville, MA 02632. Telephone: 508-775-1265.

3. The Terrible Dance of Power dramatizes one such dance that regularly leads to wholesale death and destruction, invariably in the name of great and noble causes. This dance has had many dramatic readings and performances and has been circulated around the world. A PDF can be downloaded from www.powerandsystems.com.

4. Barry Oshry,

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