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Consultants as Problem Solvers or Capacity Builders?
As we seek ways to cope with the increasing rate and complexity of change affecting our businesses, many of us have begun to recognize…
Emotional Intelligence: Fad or Fundamental Skillset?
Emotional Intelligence — we’ve all seen books, presentations, TV specials, interviews, and conferences about it. Even the venerable Harvard Business Review has published articles…
Spiritual Intelligence: A New Paradigm for Collaborative Action
What makes a great collaboration? One view is that a collaboration is only as great as the individuals who collaborate within it. Another is…
Operational Strategy Mapping: Learning and Executing at The Boeing Company
Although we usually refer to ourselves as “human beings,” the truth is, if we closely analyzed our behavior, we’d likely describe ourselves as “human…
Communities of Practice: Learning as a Social System
You are a claims processor working for a large insurance company. You are good at what you do, but although you know where your…
People in Context, Part I
Our efforts to understand and intervene in organizational events have a persistent bias: to interpret phenomena from a personal framework. In other words, situations…
A New Path to Understanding Systems Thinking
Many readers will recognize this scenario: A group in your department is planning a highly complex project, but the conversations you’re hearing about it…
The Art of Foresight: Preparing for a Changing World
Foresight is the secret ingredient of success, because without foresight we cannot prepare for the future. Effective foresight has always been important in human…
Relinking Life and Work: Toward a Better Future
The modern workplace is far less than ideal for workers who want integrated lives. As one engineer put it, “The problem isn’t for those…
Leading Ethically Through Foresight
Rereading Robert Greenleaf ’s renowned 1970 essay “The Servant As Leader” is always an exercise in humility for me. His writings are a constant…