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

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

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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…

In May I had the honor to give a talk at a major international conference on systems approaches to management in Vienna, as part…

The successful entrepreneurial journey lies at the heart of the American dream. Historically, Americans have had a romance with those who, in the words…

We all face an onslaught of information daily. We use some of that information to learn and make inferences. As we do so, it…

When the ancient Greeks explored what constituted the ideal citizen, they identified four qualities: physically fit and strong, emotionally balanced and mature, mentally agile…