Sector: Social Change
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From Riots to Resolution: Engaging Conflict for Reconciliation
As members of communities and organizations, many people feel their days (and their energy!) being consumed by contentious conflicts between diverse stakeholder groups. Organizations…
Polar Bears and Kids on Thin Ice
The place to watch for global warming—the sensitive point, the canary in the coal mine—is the Arctic. If the planet as a whole warms…
To Make Better Decisions, We Need Better Information
This column is not a Honda ad, although it will start off sounding like one. This is an ad for feedback. I’ve had a…
Dancing with Systems
People who are raised in the industrial world and who get enthused about systems thinking are likely to make a terrible mistake. They are…
Learning Through System Dynamics as Preparation for the 21st Century
What should be the outcome of a systems education? We do not expect most students to spend their lives in front of a computer…
Creating the World Anew
In May I had the honor to give a talk at a major international conference on systems approaches to management in Vienna, as part…
The Inescapable Need to Change Our Organizations: An Interview with Peter Senge
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…
The Potential of Talking and the Challenge of Listening
In December 2002, the entire world was arguing about what to do about Iraq. There were two sides to the argument. On one side,…
Connecting to Source: The U-Process
As a writer, on a handful of occasions, I’ve produced work that stands far above everything else I’ve written. This work has a special…
How Can We Solve Our Toughest Problems Peacefully?
For the past 15 years, I have focused all of my attention on answering one question: How can we solve our toughest problems peacefully?…