Tag: complexity
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The Decathlon Leader
I learned very early how important it is to be psychologically young, and as I approach my 75th year, I’m pleased to say that…
Learning About Connection Circles
The topics elementary- and middle-school students today study are complex and often difficult to understand. Seldom is an issue as simple as it appears…
Landmarks for Leaders in Times of Uncertainty and Chaos
All around the world, people are stepping forward in new ways to provide leadership. In many cases, they are not the people in positions…
Common Sense Is Not So Common
John, who is 14, and another teenager were passing a football back and forth at youth camp. Since we were inside, and there were…
“Complexipacity”: Reinventing Information Work to Enhance Productivity
An estimated 175,000 patents were granted to the U.S. last year, including more than 25,000 software patents (a new record). Concomitantly, more than 2,500…
Using the ‘Back of a Napkin’ to Assess Systems Equilibrium and Guide Change
In this information-rich and knowledge-based economy, new models, methods, and tools proliferate more rapidly than spam in our email inboxes. Yet there is one…
Leading in a Hyper-Connected Society
We live in a society today in which conventional wisdom is not only no longer conventional, but apparently not so wise either. Business schools…
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,…