What should be the outcome of a systems education? We do not expect most students to spend their lives in front of a computer…

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

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…

When Monsanto and American Home Products dissolved their intended merger last year, it was not due to a lack of strategic or market synergy,…

All you need to do is read the paper or watch the news to realize that the world is becoming more difficult to understand…

“We change the culture by changing the nature of conversation. It’s about choosing conversations that have the power to create the future.” — Peter…

If the element in greatest evidence in a school system is “young people,” and the second most prevalent feature is “desks,” surely a close…

In the “classic” systems thinking approach, a group uses mapping and modeling to help explain an important behavior over time. While we occasionally encounter…

So you’ve read The Fifth Discipline, attended the Pegasus “Systems Thinking in Action” Conference, bought simulation software, and created your first computer models. You’re…

The parable of the blind men and the elephant illustrates how our individual perceptions (what Peter Senge calls our “mental models”) can lead to…