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Systems Thinking: What, Why, When, Where, and How?
If you’re reading The Systems Thinker®, you probably have at least a general sense of the benefits of applying systems thinking in the work-place.
From Fragmentation to Integration: Building Learning Communities
We live in an era of massive institutional failure,” says Dee Hock, founder and CEO emeritus of Visa International. We need only look around…
Learning and Leading Through the Badlands
We hear a lot about complexity in the business world today — specifically, that increasing complexity is making it tougher than ever for companies…
Appreciative Inquiry: Igniting Transformative Action
In the streets of Seattle, Washington, last year, the world witnessed a striking expression of social concern. An array of highly disparate groups —…
Habits of Mind: Strategies for Disciplined Choice Making
B definition, a problem is any stimulus, question, task, phenomenon, or discrepancy for which we don’t immediately have an answer or solution. We are…
Learning-Directed Leadership in a Changing World
The information-intensive, complex, and dynamic world presents unique challenges for leaders. Never before has information been so available but knowledge been so difficult to…
The World Cafe: Living Knowledge Through Conversations That Matter
Consider all the learning that occurs as people move from place to place inside and outside an organization, carrying insights and ideas from one…
Turning Innovative Scenarios into Robust Strategies
There are many definitions of strategy. The one that means most to me is: A shared commitment to act toward a compelling goal. Why…
A Practice Theory for Organizational Learning
Acarpenter once came to work on my house carrying four heavy boxes of tool. I was taken by one elegant hand saw. “Japanese,” he…
Making the Jump to Systems Thinking
When Albert Einstein began to play with the theory of quantum physics, he didn’t like it. He spent a few years trying to disprove…