Since the Industrial Revolution, our organizations and society at large have held three biases regarding learning. First, the transmission of knowledge from an outside…

Emotional Intelligence — we’ve all seen books, presentations, TV specials, interviews, and conferences about it. Even the venerable Harvard Business Review has published articles…

Economic breakdown, rising unemployment, and escalating political hostility, coming at a time of intensifying climate upheaval – storms, floods, heat waves, and droughts –…

Rereading Robert Greenleaf ’s renowned 1970 essay “The Servant As Leader” is always an exercise in humility for me. His writings are a constant…

For many of us in the corporate world, our worst fear is organizational anarchy. We have visions of sky rocketing budgets, plummeting productivity, lack…

Storytelling has been around since the dawn of civilization (in fact, as we’ll see, it may have been the first glimmer of light at…

Have you ever worked as part of a team that was truly stuck, unable to move forward on a project? Have you seen negative…

In my previous article, Confessions of a Recovering Knower(The Systems Thinker Vol. 16, No. 7), I described my journey from being a knower to…

Empowerment is the process of enabling individuals to adopt new behaviors that further their individual aspirations and those of their organizations. This article presents…

TEAM TIP To fundamentally change the system you are in instead of making surface-level fixes, you and your team members must reinvent your- selves…