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Helping Groups to Function on Their Own: A New Form of Consulting

Everyone knows that we are going through a time of significant social change affecting all areas of our lives. The workplace is no exception.

A Curriculum for Transformational Learning

We all know from personal experience that acknowledging the need to do something differently doesn’t mean that we actually change how we act (just…

Exposing the Hidden Benefits of Business As Usual: Why the Status Quo is So Difficult to Change

For the medical informatics unit of a major health services organization, the vision was clear and compelling: assure that the most advanced current knowledge…

Increasing Agility at Sandia National Laboratories: An Interview with Lynn Jones

About two years ago, Lynn Jones, then vice president of lab services at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, and several other leaders recognized…

Getting Organized to Make a Difference

Have you ever put an article you intended to read “later” on top of a pile? In her new book It’s Hard to Make…

A or B?

Sometimes, you simply have to choose. Do I send my child to this day care or that one? Do I buy this new car…

Leading and Learning from the Future

In Theory U: Leading from the Future As It Emerges (SoL, 2007), C. Otto Scharmer, senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, takes…

The Downside of the “Prevent Defense”

In the American game of football, there is a strategy that teams often employ in the fourth and last quarter—the “prevent defense.” If their…

Comfort Zones

It’s a good thing we have comfort zones, those ways of acting and thinking that do not cause us stress or require much thought.

The Neuroscience of New Habits

According to the dictionary, a habit is “an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary.” Since we repeatedly think and…