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Taking a Systems View: A Reflection
Over many years of working with systems thinking as a student, manager, and consultant, I have developed an increasing respect for and fascination with…
Whom Do You Trust?
There’s something about trusting people — and having people trust us — that is exciting. It’s a part of human nature to give and…
The Learning Organization Revisited
As cycles and fads move, the learning organization had its time on the stage, and then, like many such innovations, it faded in popular…
Learning to Create New Knowledge
For many people, the purpose of pursuing organizational learning is to create new knowledge for competitive advantage. Although researchers and managers alike often assume…
Managing the Global to Local Paradox
TEAM TIP In a group, consider how the “global to local paradox” might play itself out in your organization. How do management’s goals and incentives…
A New Story for a New Time
Throughout our existence, people have told stories as a way to understand our place in the universe and shape our action. When a radically…
Achieving Innovation by Way of Chaos
For centuries, discoveries in science have influenced the development of management theory. In the 1800s, business leaders applied Newton’s linear logic—output is directly proportional…
Scenarios of the Future: The Urgent Case for Sustainability
I was in grade school when the original Limits to Growth (Universe Books, 1972) was published. The environmental consciousness that blossomed in the early…
Empowering People to Learn with and from Each Other
When union steelworkers and management met at the Kansas City, Missouri, Armco plant to renew their labor contract, they found themselves negotiating more than…
Balancing in a Corporate Storm: Boeing’s Quantum Shift Learning Team
In 1994, Boeing’s CEO Phil Condit published an attention-getting article in the company’s internal management publication. In it, he challenged employees to shake off…