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Aren’t Learning Organizations Curious?

For all the powers of computers, Picasso considered them useless because “they give only answers.” Isn’t one of the remaining advantages of being human…

Learning About Connection Circles

The topics elementary- and middle-school students today study are complex and often difficult to understand. Seldom is an issue as simple as it appears…

Pocket Guide: Guidelines for Daily Systems Thinking Practice

This handy guide provides a reference tool for honing your systems thinking abilities every day. Shows you how to ask different kinds of questions to…

Pocket Guide: Palette of Systems Thinking Tools

This pocket guide is a handy quick-reference guide to the full array of systems thinking tools–from dynamic thinking tools such as behavior over time graphs,…

Healing Troubled Institutions Through Systems Thinking

Acompanion to the PBS documentary, “Good News . . . How Hospitals Heal Themselves,” The Nun and the Bureaucrat: How They Found an…

Why Systems Thinking, Why Now?

You’ve heard the news—many U. S. companies are cutting their operations dramatically in response to falling investor confidence, stock prices, and revenues. Many major…

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…

The Systems Orientation: From Curiosity to Courage

Systems thinking is different from most other problem-solving tools because it takes into account the fact that we are a part of the system…

Getting to the Root: Meadows Fellows Build Capacity in Systems Tools

The first snow of the year fell on the eve of the Fellows’ arrival. This was the fourth and final workshop of the second…

Weaving Systems Thinking into the K–12 Curriculum

Thanks to the recently revised science and environmental sustainability education standards in the Washington State K–12 system, teachers are now required to teach and…