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Learning About Connection Circles
The topics elementary- and middle-school students today study are complex and often difficult to understand. Seldom is an issue as simple as it appears…
What is Your Organization’s Core Theory of Success?
Managers in today’s organizations are continually confronted with new challenges and increased performance expectations. At the same time, they are bombarded by a bewildering…
Dancing with Systems
People who are raised in the industrial world and who get enthused about systems thinking are likely to make a terrible mistake. They are…
Fine-Tuning Your Causal Loop Diagrams—Part I
Causal loop diagrams are an important tool for representing the feedback structure of systems. They are excellent for Quickly capturing your hypotheses about…
Acting and Thinking Systemically
In the summer of 2006, a group of local foundations supported the leaders of Calhoun County Michigan (population 100,000), in developing a 10-year plan…
Embracing Vulnerability:A Core Leadership Discipline for Our Times
World events over the past several years have highlighted the need for new ways of exercising leadership. Such events include the ongoing crisis in…
From Riots to Resolution: Engaging Conflict for Reconciliation
As members of communities and organizations, many people feel their days (and their energy!) being consumed by contentious conflicts between diverse stakeholder groups. Organizations…
Four Conversations in a Successful Workplace
Everything we talk about involves one or more of four types of conversation. We use them when we are socializing, talking about the weather,…
People in Context, Part I
Our efforts to understand and intervene in organizational events have a persistent bias: to interpret phenomena from a personal framework. In other words, situations…
How Learning Works
Recently, I had a long conversation with my fifteen-year-old daughter, Elise, about why she had to learn algebra. I had helped her with a…