Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Otto Scharmer

We live in an era of organized irresponsibility.

The business that leaders are in today, is the business of transforming awareness... There is deep longing for more meaning, for connections.

What happens at the beginning of any creative process? Nothing! Creativity requires that we create space and wait for something to emerge.

Our society must move from ego-system to eco-system economics. This requires that we shift from ego-system silos to eco-system awareness that considers others and includes the whole.

How to use and leverage the presence and power of certain places for accessing the authentic dimension of self in individuals and in communities, is one of the most interesting research questions for the years to come.

The one thing that I have learned from all these projects is that the key to transformative change is to make the system see itself. That’s why deep data matters. It matters to the future of our institutions, our societies, and our planet.

I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences methodology that integrates science (third-person view) social transformation (second-person view) and the evolution of self (first-person view) into a coherent framework of consciousness-based action research