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Lessons in Systems Thinking: A Tale from the Land of Middle Health
Microtown, a small community deep within the Land of Middle Health, isn’t much different from other towns. Its citizens are young and old, rich…
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…
Charting a Corporate Learning Strategy
Managers in many companies slay are struggling with one basic question: How do you actually create a learning organization? While the five disciplines described…
Shifting the Burden Revisited: Turtles All the Way Down
There is an old story about a student who asked his master, “Teacher, what holds up the world?” The teacher paused for a moment…
Modeling “Soft” Variables
When encountering system dynamics modeling for the first time, sharp-minded managers often ask, “How can you have any confidence in your model if you…
Building Trust and Cohesiveness in a Leadership Team
Over several years, I had developed a strong relationship with the leadership team of a $3 billion division of a Fortune 100 organization. A…
Four Conversations in a Successful Workplace
Everything we talk about involves one or more of four types of conversation. We use them when we are socializing, talking about the weather,…
The Mouse and the Earthquake: An Introduction to Systems Theory
If you can study a part of a process, event, or thing . . . human behavior the mind ecology the birth of a…
Collaborative Learning: Real-Time Practice for Knowledge Generation
It’s no surprise to most executives that we are in the early days of a major technological revolution that has had — or will…
”Leaning” into Organizational Learning
As a senior management team, we have always worked hard to create a true learning organization in our firm, Danfoss Socla, a specialized valve…