Margaret Wheatley describes vision not just as a destination but as a field that permeates the organization, affecting all employees who bump against it.

A simple balancing loop can be thought of as a basic control loop. In this type of feedback loop, any discrepancies between desired…

Your daughter was sick last night and you didn’t get much sleep. Tony’s car was rear-ended on the way to the office. Vivian has…

Making mental models explicit can enhance both individual and organizational learning by making individual learning more accessible and therefore more easily transferable to the…

In writing and teaching people about systems thinking, my colleagues and I at I see systems often refer to “mental models.” For some people,…

What makes a great collaboration? One view is that a collaboration is only as great as the individuals who collaborate within it. Another is…

As a global society increasingly becomes a reality and people strive to come together across divisions of culture, religion, race, age, gender, and other…

Leaders like to think that good planning and solid management are the keys to successful change. Yet too often their best efforts, combining their…

In response to growing environmental and social equity problems, hundreds of private and public “sustainable development” initiatives have blossomed across the globe since the…

Trust is a subject close to many people’s hearts. Whenever I make presentations on this subject, I never cease to be amazed by the…