Imagine you were suddenly struck with a strange illness that affected your vision. While you were still able to “see” everything around you, somehow…

Most people are familiar with the Sufi tale of the four blind men, each of whom is attempting (unsuccessfully) to describe what an elephant…

The adage “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” captures an old belief that something “known” is more valuable than…

A systems analysis of a company draws on knowledge about how structure and policy relate to behavior. Information comes primarily from interviewing people in…

The continued search for better understanding of social and economic systems represents the next great frontier in human development. Frontiers of the past have…

As members of communities and organizations, many people feel their days (and their energy!) being consumed by contentious conflicts between diverse stakeholder groups. Organizations…

People who are raised in the industrial world and who get enthused about systems thinking are likely to make a terrible mistake. They are…

This is a story about what happened to a group of technical managers working in a multinational corporation, the Big Can Corporation (BCC)*, when…

What should be the outcome of a systems education? We do not expect most students to spend their lives in front of a computer…

The Systems Thinker (TST): What are the two or three new big ideas for management in the 21st century? Peter Senge: Organizations will have to…