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Embodying Change: A Whole Systems Approach
When the ancient Greeks explored what constituted the ideal citizen, they identified four qualities: physically fit and strong, emotionally balanced and mature, mentally agile…
Executive Empathy: Lincoln’s Antidote to Escalation
As we approach not only the November elections but also Lincoln’s 200th birthday, it seems appropriate to reflect on his legacy. Why do so…
Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity
What would it mean if we knew how to successfully engage with the unknown, the uncomfortable, the unprecedented so that our organizations and communities…
Journey to Chaos and Back: Unlearning in Workplace Training Programs
Have you ever tried to drive on the left side of the road if you are born in a country in which one drives…
Lessons from Everest: The Role of Collaborative Leadership in Crisis
On May 10, 1996, 26 climbers from several expeditions reached the summit of Mt. Everest, the world’s highest mountain. At 29,028 feet, the peak…
New Thinking, New Choices
As the Industrial Age worldview has expanded to draw in more and more of the world’s people and resources, it has also created a…
Are Your Decisions Today Creating Your Future Competitors? Avoiding the Outsourcing Trap
Since the mid-1990s, a tidal wave of firms have begun outsourcing all or part of their products and services. The two remaining U. S.
Flexing a Different Conversational “Muscle”: The Practice of Dialogue
Today, many management theorists and practitioners argue that organizations are attempting to move from one paradigm, or worldview, to another (see “How Dialogue Supports…
Putting the “Relational” Back in Human Relationships
No systems thinker worthy of the name would argue that a single cause, close in time and space, produces a single result in any…
Large-Scale Projects as Complex Systems: Managing “Scope Creep”
C.Northcote Parkinson’s now famous adage, “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion,” may be overly optimistic. Unfortunately, work tends…