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Selecting Variable Names for Causal Loop Diagrams
When first beginning to draw a causal loop diagram, don’t spend a lot of time up front trying to select the “perfect” variable name.
Managing with Accumulators and Flows
A common principle of systems thinking is that “there is no away.” Every material thing we make and use must come from somewhere and…
Palette of Systems Thinking Tools
There is a full array of systems thinking tools that you can think of in the same way as a painter views colors many…
The Deeper Dimensions of Transformational Change: A Call to Collective Inquiry and Action
Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future (Society for Organizational Learning, 2004) represents a further evolution of many of the themes presented…
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…
Guidelines for Drawing Causal Loop Diagrams
The old adage “if the only tool you have is a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail” can also apply to language.
Facilitating Constructive Meetings
Have you ever dared to count the amount of time you spend in meetings every month? Staff meetings, supervision, board meetings, work groups, strategic…
Using Causal Loop Diagrams to Make Mental Models Explicit
Making mental models explicit can enhance both individual and organizational learning by making individual learning more accessible and therefore more easily transferable to the…
Structural Thinking: The World According to Accumulators and Flows
Avice president of a major U. S. manufacturer once questioned whether today’s rapid pace of change means that all our old tools and ways…
Teaching Systemic Thinking: Educating the Next Generation of Business Leaders
Are we failing to adequately prepare our business leaders? Since an article in the Harvard Business Review on the topic more than 30 years…