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Prologue: Ants, Bees, Termites and Us
Introduction: The Power Lab and the Search for System Leadership

Part I: Lessons from the Inside
1. The First Encounter
2. You Bet a Bus, I'll Raise You an Airplane
3. One That Got Away
4. Begging With Barry
5. Leadership Lessons from the Inside

Part II: Lessons from the Outside
6. System Story I: Tops, Middles, and Bottoms
7. Last Hope, Lost Hope: Part I
8. Last Hope, Lost Hope: Part II

Part III: Seeing and Leading Whole Systems
9. Exhilarating Concepts
10. Processes of the Whole: What Does IT Do?
11. Politics and Preferences
12. Systemic Imbalance
13. High Octane System Processes and the Challenge of Robust Systems

Part IV: Lessons from the Cosmos
14. System Story II: Culture and Counterculture
15. System Story III: the Terrible Dance of Power
16. Dominance: A Special Case of Differentiation
17. "I" and "Us"
Epilogue: An Experiment that Did Not Fail