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Common Sense Is Not So Common
John, who is 14, and another teenager were passing a football back and forth at youth camp. Since we were inside, and there were…
Cultivating Uncertainty in a Complex World
Like most of you, I was raised in the traditions of Western schooling. Knowing the right answer was always rewarded. Intelligence was equated with…
Systems Thinking: The Bigger Picture
As a professional systems thinker and system dynamicist, I sometimes wonder why more people don’t see value in simulation models for learning and insight.
Learning to Green Our Organizations
A lot of books cross my desk, but few grab my attention the way one new title did recently. The book, The Necessary Revolution,…
Scouting for–and Keeping–Talented Employees
In today’s era of low unemployment and go-go economy, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for companies to recruit and retain talented employees. Organizations know that…
Aren’t Learning Organizations Curious?
For all the powers of computers, Picasso considered them useless because “they give only answers.” Isn’t one of the remaining advantages of being human…
Planning to Deal with the Unpredictable
It is increasingly accepted that the metaphor of the organization as a complex adaptive system gives a better understanding of management issues than…
Building Relationships with Respect at the Center
In the introduction to her book, Respect: An Exploration (Perseus Books, 1999), sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot observes that “We pay more attention to [respect] when…
Ethical Investments-Humbug or For Real?
In recent years, people have poured billions of dollars into so-called ethical funds mutual funds that invest in companies that pledge to uphold certain…
Unleashing an Avalanche of Change
The Pebble and the Avalanche: How Taking Things Apart Creates Revolutions (Berrett-Koehler, 2005) by Moshe Yudkowsky is an interesting, readable book that examines…