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The New Facts of Life: Connecting the Dots on Food, Health, and the Environment
A discussion of the interrelations between food, health, and the environment is extremely topical today. Rising food prices together with the price of oil…
The Nature and Creation of Chaordic Organizations
We are living on the knife’s edge of one of those rare and momentous turning points in human history. Liveable lives for our grandchildren,…
The World Café Goes Local: A Town Plans for the Future
On the evening of February 27, 2008, the town of Reading, Massachusetts (population 23,708) held its first World Café conversation. The event, open to…
What Are Mental Models? Part 2
TEAM TIP Look for things that rise and fall in your organization, such as employee motivation, product sales, progress on goals, etc. What are…
Evolutionary Leadership: A Dynamic Approach to Managing Complexity
Why do some companies grow while others shrink? Why are some firms extraordinarily successful over the years while others even those in the same…
The Learner’s Path
In my previous article, Confessions of a Recovering Knower(The Systems Thinker Vol. 16, No. 7), I described my journey from being a knower to…
Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization
It is the bottom of the ninth. The game clock ticks to zero. The goalie has a weak knee; the star forward has five…
Until the Vulcan Mind Meld… Building Shared Mental Models
In the popular science fiction TV series Star Trek, the Vulcans, an extraterrestrial species, possess a unique characteristic: They can wordlessly share thoughts, experiences,…
Buy-In: A Radical Appproach to Change Management
How do we manage change in our organizations? Not very well, apparently. According to statistics, the success rate for many planned change implementations is…
Liberating Structures: A New Pattern Language for Engagement
“We change the culture by changing the nature of conversation. It’s about choosing conversations that have the power to create the future.” — Peter…