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Reader Response to “Telecommuting: The New Workplace Balancing Act”
In the March issue of The Systems Thinker, we explored the growing phenomenon of telecommuting—including both the benefits and potential dark side of this…
Engaging the Whole Person in Conversation
I’ve been facilitating group experiences for almost 25 years. One of the first things I learned was the importance of creating a sense of…
Choking on Enron
Do you think George Bush was really watching a football game when that pretzel went down the wrong pipe? He was probably getting the…
Reader Response to “Moonlighting in Germany”
In the October “Systems Thinking Workout,” we presented a scenario involving part-time employment in Germany. The article explored the potential ramifications of a new…
Yoga’s Rising Popularity Posing a Problem?
After 5,000 years, has the Hindu practice of yoga reached its “tipping point”? That’s the expression used by sociologists—and popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in…
Customer Satisfaction–for a Price
How quickly times change. Just a few short years ago, articles in business magazines were lauding the personalized attention lavished on customers by companies…
Beyond Carrots and Sticks: Three Keys for Motivating Performance
Daniel H. Pink’s latest book, Drive: The SurprisingTruth AboutWhat Motivates Us (Riverhead Books, 2009), couldn’t come at a more apt time. As the…
Managing For Underperformance: The “Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome”
One of the most compelling insights of systems thinking is that our perceptions can create our reality. How empowering and humbling to realize that…
From Caution to Crisis: The Real Y2K Dilemma
Imagine the following scenario: I go to my grocery store and buy a dozen cans of tuna. I tell the cashier, “I’m stocking up…
The Rescue of Volkswagen: A Fix that Fails?
With the ascendancy of Ferdinand Piëch to the top of Volkswagenin 1993, the car company has made a dramatic comeback. VW has pulled ahead…