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Vampires and Exponential Growth
Anyone who has seen John Carpenter’s Vampires, Dracula, Blade, or any other vampire film is already quite familiar with the vampire legend. The vampire…
Reader Response to “The Hazards of Hounding Debtors”
In the May 1999 issue of The Systems Thinker, we focused on an unfortunate trend that has arisen in the retail industry: failure to…
Business Success by Mimicking Living Systems
How do you measure the value of servant leadership in business? How can we know it works? These have been two of the most…
Making a Garden Out of a Jungle: The Power of “Third Places”
In 1989 sociologist Ray Oldenburg recorded the sharp decline of “third places” in America with his ground-breaking book The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee…
Birthing the Future Together Through Conversation
Written in short essay form, Margaret Wheatley’s latest book, Turning to One Another (BerrettKoehler, 2002), invites us to talk about what we truly care…
Being Literate in the 21st Century
Irecently learned that I’m illiterate in 21st-century terms, and likely, so are you. I mean no disrespect here. I know you are sophisticated in…
I Am Your New Neighbor
I have moved to everyone’s neighborhood. No, I am not talking about my spate of real-estate acquisitions or my newfound mastery of time and…
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…
True Spirit at Work
One February night in 1991, I dined with Diane Olson, my friend and consultant. In awe of my learnings from a leadership experience I…
A New Executive Curriculum
What is the most valuable contribution executives make to their companies, expertise or leadership? I say leadership. Knowledge and technical capabilities, no matter how…