Jumping ahead of the story

I had intended to pull some quotes from the introduction as a sort of synposis, but we hope to have a real life problem to work on in class, so I wanted to outline what that might look like and ask for suggestions. Groups using Theory U as a framework are composed of people who can actually initiate and possibly implement a change. So, what can a group so Evans students do? One issue that has come up repeatedly in more general discussions is textbooks and whether their utility in a course justifies the expense involved in buying the required latest edition. Certainly students can vote with a mouse and refuse to register for a course that requires $300 in texts. More dramatically, a registered section could collectively refuse to purchase the text. It introduces another area of shared governance of the University. To seriously explore such an issue, we would need others -- such as the manager of the UW Bookstore, a representative from the Evans School, and possibly from the Faculty Senate. Suddenly, what started as a gripe session starts to get complicated and political and seem like a lot of work. And you/I/we thought this was going to be easy...after all, we have our strategic triangle and matrix all filled in.