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Moving from Blame to Accountability
When something goes wrong in an organization, the first question that is often posed is, “Whose fault is it?” When there’s data missing in…
The Process of Dialogue: Creating Effective Communication
Consider any complex, potentially volatile issue — Arab-Israeli relations; the problems between the Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians; the U.S. deficit, healthcare costs, or labor/management…
Human Dynamics: A Foundation for the Learning Organization
In The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge posed the question, “How can a team of committed managers with individual IQs above 120 have a collective…
Extending Systems Thinking to Social Systems
We live in a networked age. After centuries of perceiving different parts of the world as separate and isolated, we are now beginning to…
Human Dynamics for the 21st Century
As a global society increasingly becomes a reality and people strive to come together across divisions of culture, religion, race, age, gender, and other…
Learning As a Biological Process
Imagine yourself walking from your car to the office. On the small patch of lawn adjacent to the parking lot, you see 20 employees…
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…
Communities of Practice: Learning as a Social System
You are a claims processor working for a large insurance company. You are good at what you do, but although you know where your…
Taking the Teeth out of Team Traps
Have you ever worked as part of a team that was truly stuck, unable to move forward on a project? Have you seen negative…
Confessions of a Recovering Knower
Hi, my name is Brian and I am a recovering knower. But for the grace of God, and the disciplines of organizational learning, I…