Leadership and cultivation
From [[http://cpsquare.org CPsquare]], the community of practice on communities of practice.
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- A large database of facilitation ideas has been collected by the International Association of Facilitators: http://www.iaf-world.org/ . Many of them are relevant to communities of practice. Also includes an email newsletter.
- Nancy White has accumulated a large body of resources on facilitation, much of it relevant to communities of practice. Start here: http://fullcirc.com/facilitation.htm
- Nancy M. Dixon, Nate Allen, Tony Burgess, Pete Kilner, Steve Schweitzer, CompanyCommand; Unleashing the power of the army profession (West Point, NY: Center for the Advancement of Leader Development & Organizational Learning, 2005). Available from Amazon or Nancy Dixon's website [[1]]. Excellent and concrete. Lots of US Army Jargon that's vivid, but you have to guess at.
- Hubert St. Onge and Deb Wallace, Leveraging Communities of Practice for Strategic Advantage (Amsterdam: Butterworth Heinemann, 2002) http://knowinc.com/cop-book/ Built around a case study at Clarica Insurance.**
- Wenger, E., McDermott, R., & Snyder, W.M. (2002). Cultivating communities of practice: A guide to managing knowledge. Boston: Harvard Business School Press. Balances "how to" with theory.
- Wenger, E., Cultivating communities of practice; a quick start up guide (2002) http://www.ewenger.com/theory/start-up_guide_PDF.pdf
- Kat Koppett, Training to Imagine; Practical Improvisational Theatre Techniques to Enhance Creativity, Teamwork, Leadership, and learning (Sterling, VA: Stylus, 2001). Face-to-face events often play an important role in community development and this book is a real treasure trove of patterns that can be readily adapted to your needs, in my opinion. Not the first book you'd read, but one that you might turn to again and again. The introduction by Thiagi alone is worth the price of the book. [JDS]
- Wilfred H. Drath and Charles J. Palus, Making Common Sense: Leadership As Meaning-Making in a Community of Practice (North Carolina?: Center for Creative Leadership, 1994) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0912879971 "//A widespread way of viewing leadership is as a process of social influence. In this report, the authors offer an alternative perspective: seeing leadership as a process of social meaning-making. The practical and research implications of such a view are considered//."
- Anthony P. Burgess, "Understanding the core group in a distributed community of practice" (Unpublished PhD dissertation, School of Engineering and Applied Science, The George Washington University, March 30, 2006)
