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Shifting the Burden: The “Helen Keller” Loops
Most of us know the story of Helen Keller and have probably sympathized with her and her parents, whose actions to protect their handicapped daughter…
Systemic Quality Management: Improving the Quality of Doing and Thinking
“No matter how hard Western nations try to engage in Quality Control education, they may not catch up with Japan until the 1990s, since it…
The Next Great Frontier: Designing Managerial & Social Systems
The 1990s are shaping up to be a decade of dramatic changes. The recent shake-ups at IBM and General Motors are ominous signs that…
The “Attractiveness Principle”: Trying to Be All Things to All People
Your friends raved about the new restaurant in town — “Great food, great service, great price” — so you finally decided to go. By…
Organizations as Learning Systems
The recent decline of well-established firms and the perceived need for corporate renewal has fueled a growing interest in the topic of organizational learning.
The Learning Organization: From Vision to Reality
Building learning organizations requires more than just “re-engineering” our existing structures. It requires a whole new vision of what organizations can become and a…
Organizational Learning and Leadership Development at EDS
Evaluating a program on “learning how to learn” is difficult using traditional quantitative criteria. Fritjof Capra, author of The Turning Point, offers these guidelines…
Decision-Making: The Empowerment Challenge
Imagine that you work for a company that has created a powerful and compelling shared vision. Furthermore, you and your colleagues have established a…
The “Living” Company: Extending the Corporate Lifeline
In the 1970s, diversification was the rage. But by the early 1980s, serious doubts had surfaced in the Shell Group about the wisdom of…
We Have to Talk: A Checklist for Difficult Conversations
Think of a conversation you’ve been putting off. Got it? Great. Then let’s go. There are dozens of books on the topic of difficult,…