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Nurturing Systemic Wisdom Through Knowledge Ecology
As companies struggle to meet the growing need for quick responses to strategic opportunities and dangers, a profound evolutionary process has been unfolding over…
Lessons from Everest: The Role of Collaborative Leadership in Crisis
On May 10, 1996, 26 climbers from several expeditions reached the summit of Mt. Everest, the world’s highest mountain. At 29,028 feet, the peak…
Journey to Chaos and Back: Unlearning in Workplace Training Programs
Have you ever tried to drive on the left side of the road if you are born in a country in which one drives…
Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity
What would it mean if we knew how to successfully engage with the unknown, the uncomfortable, the unprecedented so that our organizations and communities…
The World Cafe: Living Knowledge Through Conversations That Matter
Consider all the learning that occurs as people move from place to place inside and outside an organization, carrying insights and ideas from one…
Learning As a Biological Process
Imagine yourself walking from your car to the office. On the small patch of lawn adjacent to the parking lot, you see 20 employees…
A Pioneer on the Next Frontier: An Interview with Jay Forrester
DIANE CORY: This first question is from a manager at Xerox: “How can I help overcome the common perception among upper managers that system dynamics…
Integrating Systems Thinking and Design Thinking
As readers of this newsletter are aware, systems thinking is evolving as an alternative to the old paradigms. Richard Mattessich wrote that “systems thinking…
A Global System Growing Itself to Death—and What We Can Do About It
The underlying purpose of today’s global economy, most assume, is to transform natural resources into a continuously growing quantity of goods and services for…
The Learning Family: Bringing the Five Disciplines Home
Roger and his wife June had been struggling with differing views about how to bring up their children. Recently, Roger attended a program about…