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Food Systems, Climate Systems, Laundry Systems: The Time for Systems Literacy Is Now!
Tell me, in what subjects are you literate? Sounds like a question a college interviewer might ask. To be literate of course means you…
In Search of the Perfect Causal Loop Variable
Imagine that you’re sitting in the company cafeteria with some colleagues, munching sandwiches and discussing the latest resignation from the customer service group. “I…
Some Ways We Can Be Wise
As the scope and complexity of our world’s problems grow, so grows our need for wisdom. When people talk about wisdom, they often use…
Calmness: What a Systems View Can Bring
As I view the social landscape, charged with political maneuvering and economic trauma, I feel a certain calmness that comes through long association with…
Cultivating Uncertainty in a Complex World
Like most of you, I was raised in the traditions of Western schooling. Knowing the right answer was always rewarded. Intelligence was equated with…
The Risk of the Cure in Public Health
According to the World Health Organization, vaccines and clean water are the two public-health interventions that have had the greatest impact on the world’s…
A New Kind of Organization Based on Purpose and Principle
What do the Internet, Alcoholics Anonymous, and VISA International all have in common? You can find them just about anywhere on earth. They have…
The Five-Point Check-in
In our daily work life, practicing the five disciplines of organizational learning as defined by Peter Senge in his bestselling book, The Fifth Discipline,…
Presence of Mind: “Not Knowing” May Lead to New Answers
When was the last time you were in a meeting and someone said, “Stop thinking so much!” or “I don’t want you to come…
Planning for Multiple Futures
Some books have lengthy lives—a measure perhaps of how much they touch their times. Peter Schwartz’s The Art of the Long View: Planning…