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The Systems Orientation: From Curiosity to Courage
Systems thinking is different from most other problem-solving tools because it takes into account the fact that we are a part of the system…
Conversational Leadership: Thinking Together for a Change
AUTHORS’ NOTE: We’d like to thank and honor Carolyn Baldwin, a pioneering educator and World Café host, for coining the phrase “conversational leadership”; strategic illustrator…
We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This: Developing the Capacity for Cross-Sector Collaboration
About a year ago, I participated in a climate change event in Johannesburg, South Africa. In the room were one of the lead negotiators…
Strategic Questions: Engaging People’s Best Thinking
Stop asking so many questions,” many children hear at home. “Don’t give me the question, give me the answer,” many students hear at school.
Dynamic Thinking: A Behavioral Context
The first thinking skill in the systems thinking paradigm is Dynamic Thinking. It comes first because you must be able to think dynamically in…
Guidelines for Designing Systemic Interventions
The phones were ringing off the hook and the fax machine was humming 24 hours a day. The entire staff of the specialty goods…
Managing in the Knowledge Era
The world economy is in the midst of a profound change—one that is creating huge shifts in the way companies are organizing to provide…
Seeing Your Company as a System
Bank failures, health insurance rate hikes, and the troubles of auto manufacturers provide recent examples of the vulnerability of big, fast-changing systems and the…
Behavior Over Time Diagrams: Seeing Dynamic Interrelationships
An old Winnie the Pooh cartoon sketch shows Christopher Robin dragging Edward the Bear down a set of stairs by one arm, while the…
Creating a Comprehensive System of Inquiry
Acentral tenant of system dynamics is the need to model the problem and not the system. As John Sterman points out in his book…