Articles by Otto Scharmer
Vertical Literacy: Reimagining the 21st-Century University
Otto Scharmer · The Fridays For Future (FFF) climate strike by high school students may well be one of the most important, yet hardly covered stories by the US media today. During the week of March 15th alone, 1.6 million strikers were counted across...
Transforming Capitalism: 7 Acupuncture Points
Otto Scharmer · After a year of disheartening setbacks, many activists and change-makers may feel that the critical goal of transforming capitalism is slipping out of reach. Yet, having just returned from a four-week trip to many sites and gatherings...
One Earth, Two Social Fields
Otto Scharmer · Dallas, Ferguson, Nice. Turkey, Trump & Brexit. The simultaneous rise of global terrorism, of authoritarian strongmen and the far-right are the twin faces of our current moment. Even though Trump-type politicians and terrorism pretend...
Shifting the Logic of Collective Action: As Systems Collapse, Citizens Rise
Otto Scharmer · As we see pictures of German citizens cheering tens of thousands refugees arriving from Syria and other war zones, we may be witnessing an emerging pattern of the years to come: bureaucracy is failing (EU), systems collapsing (millions...