Tag: Systems Thinking
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Overcoming the Seven Sustainability Blunders
In response to growing environmental and social equity problems, hundreds of private and public “sustainable development” initiatives have blossomed across the globe since the…
Leveraging Organizational Readiness for Change
Leaders like to think that good planning and solid management are the keys to successful change. Yet too often their best efforts, combining their…
Trust As A Systemic Structure in Our Organizations
Trust is a subject close to many people’s hearts. Whenever I make presentations on this subject, I never cease to be amazed by the…
Nurturing Systemic Wisdom Through Knowledge Ecology
As companies struggle to meet the growing need for quick responses to strategic opportunities and dangers, a profound evolutionary process has been unfolding over…
The Learning Family: Bringing the Five Disciplines Home
Roger and his wife June had been struggling with differing views about how to bring up their children. Recently, Roger attended a program about…
Collaborative Learning: Real-Time Practice for Knowledge Generation
It’s no surprise to most executives that we are in the early days of a major technological revolution that has had — or will…
Learning Through Differences: Dilemma Theory in Action
Karen was often irritated by Jenny when they worked together. It seemed to Karen that, whenever tensions rose between the two of them, she…
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…
The Journey to Z: Realizing the Potential of an Organization
Read the business media today and you’ll see that organizations of all types, from all sectors, are in deep trouble. There are many reasons…
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…