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Learning From Everyday Conflict
Recently the president of a large professional services organization brought in an external consultant to mediate a conflict between two vice presidents. The relationship…
What Is the Relationship Between Systems Thinking and Lean?
What is the relationship between systems thinking and lean? That’s a fascinating question, one not so easily answered, because we’re talking about two very…
Both the Parts and Whole: Leadership and Systems Thinking
Leaders operate in the realm of bewildering uncertainty and staggering complexity. Today’s problems are rarely simple and clear-cut. If they were, they would likely…
The Inner Game of Work: Building Capability in the Workplace
“What would be more interesting to you,” I ask an audience of executives, “engaging in a dialogue on learning how to coach or one…
A Systemic View of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
My wife and I moved to Israel on September 25, 2000—three days before the Al Aqsa Intifada began. Our hopes for a wide-ranging sabbatical,…
From Fragmentation to Integration: Building Learning Communities
We live in an era of massive institutional failure,” says Dee Hock, founder and CEO emeritus of Visa International. We need only look around…
From Event Thinking to Systems Thinking
Your division has been plagued by late launches in its last five new products, and now management has charged you with “getting to the…
From Key Success Factors to Key Success Loops
Many of us are familiar with the following drill: Corporate pushes a new program, and each department must come up with its own plans…
Step-By-Step Stocks and Flows: Converting From Causal Loop Diagrams
Once you have a basic knowledge of stocks and flows, you can begin converting CLDs to stock and flow diagrams. The steps we describe…
Coaching and Facilitating Systems Thinking
Systems thinking began as a set of analytic tools, but perhaps its greatest impact is as a language for collective inquiry, learning, and action.