Jason Clark

Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future
by Peter M. Senge (Other Contributor), Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers
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This my reading with my doctoral cohort this week. I have never read the Vth Discipline (by Peter Senge, I have just bouigh it though), but had heard of it. Seems from an internet search that it ia standard text for MBA’s around the world.

Did you know that in Japan they get managers to read books, and discuss them together by posting to intranets.

So my early impressions of this book are it was expensive, I love the covnersation style, of one man and his 3 friends talking. It’s been interesting to see that style in other place including some emerging church events, and books. Narrative, conversation, to communicate and include, and have some participation by listening in.

Their level of optimism for humanity is compelling. Not in a way that’s manifest destiny sort of thing, but just imagine if people tapped into their potential. Isn’t the gospel the book of human potential, what we can do, be, become.

Made me wonder that when our message is go to heaven when you die, and not let’s eradicate poverty, cure cancer, travel to the stars…when is our Gospel message going to have a message of potential and not all about how bad and depraved we are.

So what’s the link to previous books…reality being expressed in conversation between people…narrative hermenuetics and epistomology? We are truth. And what about the Gospel’s don’t we get to see Jesus talking with some people and friends of his (and enemies).

We would be daft to read this book red lettering P Senge’s words, and the do hsitorical cricitcism on, to mine the foundational principles from it…yet we do the same with scripture.