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Readers’ Response to “Built to Flip”

The Internet Revolution In the past, Initial Purchase Offerings (IPOs) and other lucrative investments in up-and-coming companies were available only to large institutions, to those…

Toolbox: Partnership Coaching

Effective coaching is one of the highest leverage activities available to leaders today for improving individual and group learning and performance. Developing partnerships with…

Reader Response to “Online Shopping: Can the Holiday Boom Last?”

In the February issue of THE SYSTEMS THINKER (Volume 10, Number 1), we launched the new Systems Thinking Workout column. In the column, we…

From “Limits to Growth” to “Life Beyond Growth”

The Club of Rome and the Smithsonian Institute hosted the symposium “Perspectives on Limits to Growth: Challenges to Building a Sustainable Planet” in Washington,…

The Deeper Dimensions of Transformational Change: A Call to Collective Inquiry and Action

Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future (Society for Organizational Learning, 2004) represents a further evolution of many of the themes presented…

Multiple Truths: Dialogue for Aligning Vision at Hindustan Petroleum

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited is the second-largest marketing and oil refining company in India, with more than 11,000 employees, an annual turnover of more…

The Kaospilots: School of Societal Change, Business Creativity, and Personal Mastery

Imagine you attend an educational institution where your ideas are supported and anything seems possible. Imagine that, as a student, you are valued as…

Landmarks for Leaders in Times of Uncertainty and Chaos

All around the world, people are stepping forward in new ways to provide leadership. In many cases, they are not the people in positions…

The Neuroscience of New Habits

According to the dictionary, a habit is “an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary.” Since we repeatedly think and…

Planning to Deal with the Unpredictable

It is increasingly accepted that the metaphor of the organization as a complex adaptive system gives a better understanding of management issues than…