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The Nature and Creation of Chaordic Organizations
We are living on the knife’s edge of one of those rare and momentous turning points in human history. Liveable lives for our grandchildren,…
Learning About Connection Circles
The topics elementary- and middle-school students today study are complex and often difficult to understand. Seldom is an issue as simple as it appears…
The Learning Construction Site: Unlearning and Rebuilding New Knowledge
I grew up and was educated in Rome, Italy. The European didactic style tends to be more theoretical and less interactive than that of…
Toyota’s Current Crisis: The Price of Focusing on Growth Not Quality
For the past 15 years or so, I have told audiences a story about how my perception of what determines good business performance has…
Connecting to Source: The U-Process
As a writer, on a handful of occasions, I’ve produced work that stands far above everything else I’ve written. This work has a special…
The World Cafe: Living Knowledge Through Conversations That Matter
Consider all the learning that occurs as people move from place to place inside and outside an organization, carrying insights and ideas from one…
Comfort Zones
It’s a good thing we have comfort zones, those ways of acting and thinking that do not cause us stress or require much thought.
Finding the Right Leverage Point
You have had some success with visionary planning and now you intend to begin using “systems thinking” to help achieve your vision. In fact you…
Escalation: The Dynamics of Insecurity
Have you ever been caught in a situation where you felt that things were going well beyond what you intended, but you felt powerless to…
The Learning Organization Journey: Assessing and Valuing Progress
Suppose you have just been appointed the CKO—Chief Knowledge Officer—of your organization. You are responsible for managing the company’s knowledge capital, including how it…