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Pea Beans in Ethiopia: Challenges of Creating New Business Models for Sustainable Livelihoods
Ethiopia is a wonderfully unusual place in Africa. It has never been colonized, only occupied by the Italians during World War II for about…
Check In, Check Out: A Tool for “Real” Conversations
Your daughter was sick last night and you didn’t get much sleep. Tony’s car was rear-ended on the way to the office. Vivian has…
Cultivating Tomorrow’s Leaders: Should You Teach, Coach, or Mentor?
You need good people in your department to make your organization shine. Capable deputies allow you to stretch to new goals, and a thriving…
Transformation of Ethos at the U.S. National Security Agency
In January 2000, the director of the National Security Agency (NSA), Lieutenant General Michael V. Hayden, engaged the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) to…
New Perspectives on Tragedy of the Commons
Does the way out of “Tragedy of the Commons” (TOC) situations have to do just with teaching people about the structural deficiencies of their…
Capturing the Knowledge of “100,000 of the World’s Brightest People”
When Sir John Browne, CEO of oil and gas giant BP, wrote the above words, he captured the promise of knowledge management in arrestingly…
Southwest Airlines: Does the “Soft Stuff” Work with Tough Problems?
As we speak to people around the world about servant-leadership, a practical philosophy that encourages collaboration, trust, foresight, listening, and the ethical use of…
Why Do Bosses Behave as Dictators? A Systems Perspective
If you’ve worked for any length of time, you’ve almost certainly had a bad boss. A bad boss can blight our existence in a…
Introducing Systems Thinking into Your Organization
So you’ve read The Fifth Discipline, attended the Pegasus “Systems Thinking in Action” Conference, bought simulation software, and created your first computer models. You’re…
When Technology Alone Isn’t Enough: Rediscovering the Social Nature of Learning
Why can millions of people successfully operate a relatively complex piece of heavy equipment — an automobile — while few seem capable of getting…