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Confluence of Process and Technology Brings Two Companies Closer Together
This is the tale of a powerful, synergistic confluence of process and technology at a three-day strategic conversation last December that moved two large…
Introducing Systems Thinking to Businesses the “Soft” Way
As with any innovative methodology, introducing systems thinking to business leaders without turning them off is a key challenge. Overcoming this challenge requires presenting…
Action-to-Outcome Maps in Impact Assessment
During the last few years, our team at the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD) has been working on an important but little examined…
The End of Economic Expansion Requires Compression Thinking
The term “Compression” refers to the end of economic expansion as we currently know it, that is, ongoing growth enabled by the practices of…
Continuous Partial Attention and the Demise of Discretionary Time
Leaving work at the end of the day, I turn the corner to the long front hallway of my office building. Ahead of me,…
Learn by Doing: Get Faster Every Lap
Few people ever recall who finished in second place. This is most evident in automobile racing, whether it is the international Formula 1, the…
Systems Thinking at BMW: Clearing Up Germany’s Traffic Jam
For most of us who own cars, the automobile is a powerful symbol of economic status, self-reliance, and individual freedom. A privately owned car…
The Deeper Dimensions of Transformational Change: A Call to Collective Inquiry and Action
Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future (Society for Organizational Learning, 2004) represents a further evolution of many of the themes presented…
Three Horizons: Shifting Vision to Lead to an Emerging Future
Good leadership constantly requires a careful, ongoing evaluation of a vision of the future to which one can navigate. Many leaders are guided by…
From “Limits to Growth” to “Life Beyond Growth”
The Club of Rome and the Smithsonian Institute hosted the symposium “Perspectives on Limits to Growth: Challenges to Building a Sustainable Planet” in Washington,…