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New Stories Can Generate New Realities
There is no easy or straightforward or guaranteed way to transform complex social systems. My own experience of 20 years of working with transformative…
Power Invisible
A Massachusetts teacher I once knew asked his tenth graders to blurt out the first words that came to mind on hearing the word…
The World Café Goes Local: A Town Plans for the Future
On the evening of February 27, 2008, the town of Reading, Massachusetts (population 23,708) held its first World Café conversation. The event, open to…
Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization
It is the bottom of the ninth. The game clock ticks to zero. The goalie has a weak knee; the star forward has five…
Systems Thinking as a Team-Building Approach
The chief information officer (CIO) of the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, a research hospital with a large outpatient facility, faced a formidable…
Finding Balance: What Aikido Can Teach Us About Conflict
Conflict stories are our most interesting stories. When you see two people deeply engaged in conversation, chances are that one of them is telling…
The Managerial Moment of Truth
Truth is a tricky subject in any context. People rightly ask, what is the truth? How do we know? Are we really talking about…
Leading the Shift from a Dominator to a Partnership Culture
A growing awareness that humankind is facing unprecedented challenges is making many of us uneasy. Our unease stems from an increasing sense that humanity’s…
Schools That Learn: Context and Engagement
In 1988, the first systems thinking classes were started at Orange Grove Middle School in Tucson, Arizona, instigated by Frank Draper, a science teacher,…
Landmarks for Leaders in Times of Uncertainty and Chaos
All around the world, people are stepping forward in new ways to provide leadership. In many cases, they are not the people in positions…