Daniel Kim
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Using Causal Loop Diagrams to Make Mental Models Explicit
Making mental models explicit can enhance both individual and organizational learning by making individual learning more accessible and therefore more easily transferable to the…
Structural Thinking: The World According to Accumulators and Flows
Avice president of a major U. S. manufacturer once questioned whether today’s rapid pace of change means that all our old tools and ways…
Shifting the Burden: Moving Beyond a Reactive Orientation
Although the parable of the boiled frog has become a familiar story in organizational learning circles, it does not yet seem to prevent organizations…
Accumulators: Bathtubs, Bathtubs Everywhere…
When’s the last time you actually took a real, honest-to-goodness bath? If you are like most people, it has probably been quite a while.
Fixes that Fail: Why Faster is Slower
Mqost of us are familiar with the paradox that asks, “Why is it that we don’t have the time to do things right in…
Balancing Loops with Delays: Teeter-Tottering on Seesaws
Most of us have played on a seesaw at one time or another and can recall the up and down motion as the momentum…
Using “Limits to Success” as a Planning Tool
Any successful product or company begins with a plan for achieving success. But oftentimes people are better prepared for dealing with failure than for…
From Individual to Shared Mental Models
Making individual mental models explicit is only one step toward fostering organizationwide learning. Since perceptions of reality can vary widely among different people in…
Systems Archetypes As Structural Pattern Templates
Imagine you were suddenly struck with a strange illness that affected your vision. While you were still able to “see” everything around you, somehow…
Systems Archetypes as Dynamic Theories
Most people are familiar with the Sufi tale of the four blind men, each of whom is attempting (unsuccessfully) to describe what an elephant…