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Real-World Lessons from Living Systems
This past year, two leading management thinkers published new editions of their classic books. In an upcoming issue, we’ll dive between the pages of…
Balancing Loops with Delays: Teeter-Tottering on Seesaws
Most of us have played on a seesaw at one time or another and can recall the up and down motion as the momentum…
Three Attributes to Sustainable Leadership
In Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others Through Mindfulness, Hope, and Compassion (Harvard Business School Press, 2005), Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee…
Timely Leadership Through Action Inquiry
The number of leadership titles flooding the marketplace these days reflects people’s quest to find ways for their organizations to respond effectively to the…
Getting Organized to Make a Difference
Have you ever put an article you intended to read “later” on top of a pile? In her new book It’s Hard to Make…
Unlocking the Potential for Change
There are many reasons why it is so difficult to overcome what James O’Toole aptly describes as “the ideology of comfort and the tyranny…
Working and Living in a World of Possibility
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life (Harvard Business School Press, 2000), by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander, serves as a…
Healing Troubled Institutions Through Systems Thinking
Acompanion to the PBS documentary, “Good News . . . How Hospitals Heal Themselves,” The Nun and the Bureaucrat: How They Found an…
Leadership as a Second Language
In his latest—and most valuable —book, The Secret Language of Leadership: How Leaders Inspire Action Through Narrative (Jossey-Bass, 2007), Stephen Denning develops in much…
Raising Awarenenss of How Social Structure Influences Performance
In my recent feature article, “Extending Systems Thinking to Social Systems” (Volume 18 Number 5), I presented the systemic law known as “structural determinism,”…