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Creating a New Workplace: Making a Commitment to Community
These comments came from production workers at Rhino Foods, a specialty dessert producer in Vermont. Although I have worked with many companies, the spirit…
Too Many Boats on the Horizon
Today, fully one-third of the 200 fisheries worldwide monitored by the U.N.’s Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) are depleted or being overfished…. This view…
Developing a Multicultural Learning Organization
Effectively managing and benefiting from diversity poses a significant challenge to our organizations. Regardless of a person’s race, gender, or sexual orientation, they do…
Building a Core Competence in Community
I recently worked with a group in a high-tech computer company that once had a very alive sense of community. The people felt more…
Is There More to Corporations than Maximizing Profits?
The sole purpose of a corporation is to maximize return on investment to shareholders.” That is the raison d’etre for most organizations — and…
Learning Histories: “Assessing” the Learning Organization
Anyone working to build a learning organization will, sooner or later, run up against the challenge of “proving” the value of what he or…
An Infrastructure for Organizational Transformation at Shell Oil
One of the most valuable insights I ever received on transforming organizations came from my study of physics. My early studies of classical physics…
Using Systems Thinking “On-Line”: Listening for Competing Hypotheses
A common approach for using systems thinking in a group setting is to set aside a specific time to explore a significant issue containing…
Modeling for Learning Organizations
Using causal loop diagrams or systems archetypes to explore a significant organizational problem can be an eye-opening experience. As a team works through the…