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…

World events over the past several years have highlighted the need for new ways of exercising leadership. Such events include the ongoing crisis in…

We live in a time of massive institutional failure, collectively creating results that nobody wants. Climate change. AIDS. Hunger. Poverty. Violence. Terrorism. Destruction of…

As members of communities and organizations, many people feel their days (and their energy!) being consumed by contentious conflicts between diverse stakeholder groups. Organizations…

Everything we talk about involves one or more of four types of conversation. We use them when we are socializing, talking about the weather,…

Our efforts to understand and intervene in organizational events have a persistent bias: to interpret phenomena from a personal framework. In other words, situations…

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…

Hi, my name is Brian and I am a recovering knower. But for the grace of God, and the disciplines of organizational learning, I…

Why can’t we all just get along?” asked Rodney King famously, echoing the sentiments of many of us who have at some point or…

The goal of education for sustainability (EFS) is “to develop in young people and adults new knowledge and new ways of thinking needed to…