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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,”…
Cynics & Believers
How many times do we walk into a workshop and find ourselves wondering whether or not we really want to be there, questioning whether…
Polar Bears and Kids on Thin Ice
The place to watch for global warming—the sensitive point, the canary in the coal mine—is the Arctic. If the planet as a whole warms…
Turning a Tragedy into a Triumph of the Commons?
Recently, the New England Fishery Management Council adopted promising new rules for regulating threatened regional fish stocks. The new rules will over time shift…
Why Systems Thinking, Rather Than New Technologies, Will Jump-Start the Clean-Tech Economy
Whether they focus on wind power, solar power, clean coal, geothermal, biofuels, or something even more exotic, most efforts to wean the world economy…
Leading and Learning from the Future
In Theory U: Leading from the Future As It Emerges (SoL, 2007), C. Otto Scharmer, senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, takes…
Relieving the Stress of Others
Here’s a story from the Harvard Business Review about helping other people manager stress (“Leading in Times of Trauma” by Jane E. Dutton et…