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Building a Company of Citizens
In this age, when many voters I are attracted to political candidates from the business world who vow to run government like a corporation,…
Why Few Organizations Adopt Systems Thinking
I frequently talk to groups of managers on the nature of systems thinking and its radical implications to management. In doing so, I use…
From Mechanistic to Social Systemic Thinking
Each of us has a theory of reality, a concept of the nature of the world which is referred to as our worldview. Our…
We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This: Developing the Capacity for Cross-Sector Collaboration
About a year ago, I participated in a climate change event in Johannesburg, South Africa. In the room were one of the lead negotiators…
A Lifetime of Systems Thinking
When one reaches 80, one is considered to be ripe and ready for picking. Picking usually consists of the pickers asking the pickee to…
Transforming the Systems Movement
The situation the world is in is a mess. This hardly requires documentation; it’s obvious. Furthermore, as Leslie Gelb observed in his article “Fresh…
A Group Process for Systems Thinking
At first blush, systems thinking may seem like something we can apply by ourselves. While that may be possible for simple dynamics, a systems…
Taking a Systems View: A Reflection
Over many years of working with systems thinking as a student, manager, and consultant, I have developed an increasing respect for and fascination with…
Everyone’s Problem to Solve: Systems Thinking Cross-Functionally
Several years ago, I was approached by a California-based software firm focused on electronic design automation. Their software enabled hardware engineers to efficiently design…
“Positive” Systems Archetypes
Many readers of The Systems Thinker are familiar with the systems archetypes developed in the mid- 1980s based on the work of Jay Forrester,…