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No More Gold Stars: Regenerating Capacity to Think for Ourselves Paperback – September 14, 2023

by Carol Sanford (Author), Tom Peters (Foreword), Tyson Yunkaporta (Foreword)
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Cultivate a new generation of self-reliant thinkers in this powerful approach to education and learning.

Nothing short of a re-alignment of the heavens. Virtually a new and liberating way of looking at civilization. A BIG IDEA for big challenges.
—Tom Peters, best-selling author of In Search of Excellence

In this groundbreaking shift to how we approach learning, best-selling author and business educator Carol Sanford offers a systemic, introspective approach to education and critical thinking.

From the time we’re able to learn, we take in knowledge from others. From our education system to how we work, we accept what leaders, experts, and the authorities tell us as fact. We are taught that others with more training and specialty degrees are the gatekeepers of truth. Yet, this practice of acceptance without validation leads us to design systems that feed polarization, faulty decision making, and poor leadership.

No More Gold Stars answers the important question “How do we stop letting others think for us and instead learn to examine knowledge for ourselves?” If our current approach to learning undermines learning itself, it’s time to dismantle the flawed behaviorism theory fueling such errors in our schools, families, and businesses and instead turn inward to be self-directed, critical thinkers.

Discover:
  • Six disciplines for fostering independent thought and creativity, crucial in tackling big challenges like climate change and social injustice.
  • Engaging case stories demonstrating profound, sustainable learning in business and community contexts.
  • Interactive workbook sections after each chapter, personalizing the journey of learning and application.
  • 24 specific developmental practices to revolutionize your approach to education, learning, and change.
  • Insights to challenge and overcome the pervasive issues entrenched in our education systems, institutions, and business organizations.

Rooted in ancient approaches found in indigenous cultures, spiritual communities, and quantum disruptors of modern science, No More Gold Stars is an essential instrument for those ready to challenge popular wisdom and embrace a more effective, systemic way of thinking and learning. No More Gold Stars offers an approach to developing human critical thinking skills where each human can think for themselves and become more creative, complete, and wise, at a time when we need it most.
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Carol Sanford is a best-selling, award-winning author, business educator, summit producer, podcaster, and designer of membership communities. Her books are required readings in multiple departments from Stanford to Harvard. For 40 years, she's collaborated with leaders to develop people and businesses to express their singular capabilities. Carol's clients include companies like Colgate, DuPont, and Seventh Generation. Google's Innovation Lab uses her Responsible Business Framework. Learn more at CarolSanford.com and the Business Second Opinion podcast.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Interoctave, Inc. (September 14, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 220 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0989301389
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0989301381
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.7 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.55 x 9 inches
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Carol Sanford is a consistently recognized thought leader working side by side with Fortune 500 and new economy executive teams, designing and leading systemic business change and design. She is Senior Fellow of Social Innovation, Babson College; Founder, The Regenerative Business Development Community, Change Agent Development community.

Her best-selling books have 15 awards, are required reading at leading business and management schools including Harvard, Stanford, Haas Berkeley and MIT. Carol also partners with producing Executive Education through Babson College, Kaospilot in Denmark, University of Washington and The Lewis Institute at Babson. Her books are filled with case stories, from around the world wide diversity represented.

To that end, Carol has been leading regenerative education efforts in both Fortune 500 and new-economy businesses for more than 40 years. Her client list includes long-term relationships with Colgate Europe and Africa and DuPont Canada, US, Asia, and Europe. She also works with new-economy companies like Intel, Agilent, and leaders of corporate responsibility such as Seventh Generation, Numi Tea, Guayaki.. Google uses her work as a framework in the Food Innovation Lab.

Carol is CEO of Carol Sanford Institute, an education company on building Regenerative Businesses that become non-displaceable in their markets, enduringly. The Carol Sanford Institute is based in the Seattle region of the Puget Sound.

She combines her economic development experience with her extensive business education and background using urban systems, psychology and learning practices.

Carol has published dozens of works in 10 languages, including a series of articles in Executive Excellence, Stephen Covey's newsletter and At Work, a Berrett-Koehler Journal. She is the author of five books with three publishers.

Central to Carol's philosophy and approach is a fresh look at what makes an organization truly regenerative. "It's important to discover your singularity, what enables you to differentiate your business from the crowd," she says, "and then thinking about how to do business so that communities, societies, and ecology as a whole are improved. These are not separate but interwoven pursuits. It's completely doable, and a conversation worth having."

She holds undergraduate degrees from UC Berkeley in Economics and Public Law and graduate degrees from California State University, San Jose in Urban Planning. She currently lives near Seattle.

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I am finding this book a potent guide for myself and my team. I have purchased the book for everyone on our team to read and discuss. Learning how to be an independent, self-aware human is vital to our present moment. Carol's process with Intermezzo's that offer opportunities to reflect as you move through to book, give more depth to the reading experience and the understanding of how to apply it to life. I highly recommend No More Gold Stars!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Get ready to stretch your mind and heart.
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2024
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Time out. Stop the world. Prepare to stretch your mind and heart. Carol Sanford's 'No More Gold Stars' is an essential read for everyone, especially those delving into complex issues and seeking transformational shifts. This book serves as a powerful call to action, elevating us to a higher plane of understanding and engagement. Get ready to think consciously about yourself, the living systems you are part of, and your pivotal role in evolution.
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Lori Kirstein
5.0 out of 5 stars Critical book for building awareness and personal agency
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2023
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I was looking for confirmation of my strong belief that the main problem we have in our society is a practice of and belief in anyone but ourselves being the experts. Carol Sanford's work in No More Gold Stars goes way beyond confirmation. She highlights the vast problems that come with this approach to life individually, societally and globally. I think she is 100% correct in her stance that coming into a our own personal agency, and moving into our ability to see and live beyond right and wrong and instead move into the mystery and magic of our human limitlessness (my interpretation - certainly she would phrase it differently) - these are clearly the ways out of our current morass.

She laid out the historical, emotional and societal hijacking so beautifully and clearly - big truths based in knowing - that I believe anyone reading this book will follow and come to understand Ms. Sanford's points with little to no resistance or cloudiness.

What I admire, too, about this book is the clarity, flow, and real-person writing. When I read it, I felt like I was being spoken to by someone who knows how to communicate meaning and impact without either soft-soaping it or overstating. Seriously good stuff.

This is Carol Sanford at her distilled, essential best.
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Lori Kirstein
5.0 out of 5 stars Critical book for building awareness and personal agency
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2023
I was looking for confirmation of my strong belief that the main problem we have in our society is a practice of and belief in anyone but ourselves being the experts. Carol Sanford's work in No More Gold Stars goes way beyond confirmation. She highlights the vast problems that come with this approach to life individually, societally and globally. I think she is 100% correct in her stance that coming into a our own personal agency, and moving into our ability to see and live beyond right and wrong and instead move into the mystery and magic of our human limitlessness (my interpretation - certainly she would phrase it differently) - these are clearly the ways out of our current morass.

She laid out the historical, emotional and societal hijacking so beautifully and clearly - big truths based in knowing - that I believe anyone reading this book will follow and come to understand Ms. Sanford's points with little to no resistance or cloudiness.

What I admire, too, about this book is the clarity, flow, and real-person writing. When I read it, I felt like I was being spoken to by someone who knows how to communicate meaning and impact without either soft-soaping it or overstating. Seriously good stuff.

This is Carol Sanford at her distilled, essential best.
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Elicia Ratajczyk
5.0 out of 5 stars A book that invites true engagement rather than unconscious absorption.
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2024
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No More Gold Stars is the latest in Carol Sanford’s series of thought provoking books that invite the reader to observe and test their own thinking as they engage with the book. The book’s Intermezzos ask us to slow down and carefully question and consider what we have read and how it applies to our life and purpose in the world, then further asking us to question and consider where any of our ideas and consciousness are sourced from and why that matters in our lives and the lives of our communities and our planet. A truly engaging and provoking book which I highly recommend for anyone seeking to regenerate their capability and capacity to make a difference in the world.
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JPMax
5.0 out of 5 stars A timely book for the critical work of social institutions and change agents
Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2023
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No More Gold Stars is a timely and interactive book for the critical work of business, educational institutions, and families, in the development of the capability of individuals and organizations to move upstream to examine HOW we are thinking and better understand the effects in what and how we are producing downstream. It offers a necessary perspective at a time when the destabilizing effects of transitions can lead to falling back to the unexamined and comfortable patterns of the known where problem-solving and action taking gain a precedence over critical thinking and new innovative insights.
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Cameron T Miller
5.0 out of 5 stars Developing Crisp Clarity - Affecting Meaningful Change
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2023
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I've had the honor of learning from and with Carol over the past ten years. I've learned so much over time, and I find that each of her books has helped me clarify my learning. Whether you've followed Carol's work for some time, or are just now finding her work, I believe that you'll find No More Gold Stars a powerful invitation to see and work in the world in powerfully different ways.
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5.0 out of 5 stars What ARE we thinking? 🤔
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2024
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Whether we are conscious of it or not, how we think, the frameworks we use, dictate our reality and actions. Behaviorism is ubiquitous and until we change our "story," it will continue to be business as usual. Well, that hasn't been working out so well, has it? Carol Sanford, and Tyson Yunkaporta, are two disruptors who are working to wake us up from our collective unconscious slumber, apathy and despair. We must learn how to see the world as a complex Living System. This shift in consciousness can't be imposed from outside, it takes inner work, critical reasoning and community. All the challenges we are facing may seem insurmountable but collectively we can help birth a new level of consciousness, starting with ourselves and our place in the larger "Life Shed" we live in. Great gratitude for these "positive contrarians," and great gratitude for this inspiring book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most important books to read
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2024
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I highly recommend reading all of Carol's books, but especially "No More Gold Stars". If you have ever been frustrated about the current state of the world, culture, education, and the socio-economic systems within which we are living and participating in, then this book is for you. It felt as though Carol were speaking directly to my experience of how behaviorism has impacted my life and our culture, society, and systems. It provides a way to consider how we evolve beyond the structures and systems that have been created by behaviorism. It's a powerful disruption and engaging read that will likely transform your view.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Game changing thinking
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2024
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I am finding this book a potent guide for myself and my team. I have purchased the book for everyone on our team to read and discuss. Learning how to be an independent, self-aware human is vital to our present moment. Carol's process with Intermezzo's that offer opportunities to reflect as you move through to book, give more depth to the reading experience and the understanding of how to apply it to life. I highly recommend No More Gold Stars!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Game changing thinking
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2024
I am finding this book a potent guide for myself and my team. I have purchased the book for everyone on our team to read and discuss. Learning how to be an independent, self-aware human is vital to our present moment. Carol's process with Intermezzo's that offer opportunities to reflect as you move through to book, give more depth to the reading experience and the understanding of how to apply it to life. I highly recommend No More Gold Stars!
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Christina Peters
5.0 out of 5 stars Disrupting your thinking
Reviewed in Germany on January 21, 2024
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If you say "I want my team to think for themselves and take responsibility", this is the book for you to read first. You will never look at the world, your leadership and team and organisational development in the same way. Yes, it is sometimes hard to get your head around some of the concepts but this is done on purpose to make you think for yourself and see beyond your conditioning. "Thinking" and not "thoughting" (recycling old thinking). It has really helped me see more clearly the root cause of the many challenges we are currently facing around creativity, innovation, agency, responsibility and transformation in business (and beyond). Everyone wants these capabilities but we have to do the actual "Work" to reflect and think for ourselves again. Also, Carol Sanford highlights the importance of developing living systems in flow (because nothing is static in this world) and understanding our role as humans in the evolutionary process. This book definitively inspired me to step up!
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Rashmir Balasubramaniam
5.0 out of 5 stars Read this book, elevate your thinking
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 21, 2024
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This is Carol Sanford's best book to date! A must read for anyone that thinks of themselves as a thinker and anyone in leadership, change/transformation and people development. We can't create change if we don't evolve ourselves and elevate the quality of our thinking. This book helps with the why and how of that.
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Tim Collings
5.0 out of 5 stars A gift of deep capacity building for all humans who care about our role on this planet
Reviewed in Australia on October 9, 2023
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The structure of this book makes it such an incredible journey of development. Like 'Indirect Work' which I also adore as a development process, in 'No More Gold Stars' Carol provides a pathway to examine so many of the premices which we do not see in ourselves and the world - our patterns of thought, how we frame context and how we view ourselves in the world, and how we can begin to shift our awareness of these lens so that we can generate more consciousness in how we navigate our life in this world. A rare gift indeed, provided by one of the most astute, caring and capable custodians of developmental approaches to work, life and humanity. Thank you Carol.
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Mr. T. Logan
5.0 out of 5 stars This is an IMPORTANT book!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 19, 2023
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This is an IMPORTANT book! An excavation of the insidious behaviourism that has inflitrated all of our systems, including our language and ways of knowing.

It starts brilliantly with Tyson Yunkaporta and Carol on the dancefloor and just gets better! 🕺 💃 ⚡🕺 💃

As Tyson says in his Foreword: "I came late to the regenerative systems party... All the Buckminster Fullers and Gregory Batesons had already left, and no one was dancing anymore because everybody was either waiting for their turn to be DJ or trying to buy edibles with obscure cryptocurrencies. Carol Sanford was still up and boogying, though, and she yanked me onto the reclaimed timber dance floor with a slightly trembling but wickedly strong hand, then spun me round a few times. under an upcycled disco ball... Carol reminded me of my own contention that it was the party itself that was late, centuries late for a regenerative life embedded in land and good relation."

Amazing!! 🙌
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