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Measuring a City’s Health
When you fly a plane, you need an instrument panel in front of you, with lights and dials telling you how well the parts…
Putting Best Practices into Practice
Seeking out and spreading best practices throughout an organization — particularly a large organization — provides significant strategic advantages. The idea of identifying and…
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…
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…
Transforming the Systems Movement
The situation the world is in is a mess. This hardly requires documentation; it’s obvious. Furthermore, as Leslie Gelb observed in his article “Fresh…
Rethinking Leadership in the Learning Organization
How many times have we heard statements like these and simply accepted them as “the way things are?” CEOs and other top executives talk…
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…
Integrating Systems Thinking and Design Thinking
As readers of this newsletter are aware, systems thinking is evolving as an alternative to the old paradigms. Richard Mattessich wrote that “systems thinking…
Habits of Mind: Strategies for Disciplined Choice Making
B definition, a problem is any stimulus, question, task, phenomenon, or discrepancy for which we don’t immediately have an answer or solution. We are…
Making the Jump to Systems Thinking
When Albert Einstein began to play with the theory of quantum physics, he didn’t like it. He spent a few years trying to disprove…