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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…
Common Thinking Traps: Correlation and Causation
People who have been beaten as children are more likely to beat their own children. Therefore, being beaten as a child makes the child…
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…
Scouting for–and Keeping–Talented Employees
In today’s era of low unemployment and go-go economy, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for companies to recruit and retain talented employees. Organizations know that…
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…