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Empowering Multigenerational Collaboration in the Workplace

Today’s workforce represents a broad range of age groups. As a result of college internships, modern healthcare, antidiscrimination laws, and a plethora of lifestyle…

Overcoming Defensive Routines in the Workplace

Any time you hear the phrase, “Here we go again” in response to a problem, it is a clue that a pattern is in…

From Chaos to Coherence: The Emergence of Inspired Organizations and Enlightened Communities

The processes in this book bring out the best in people as they improve their workplaces and communities. The chapters are filled with examples…

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…

Embodying Change: A Whole Systems Approach

When the ancient Greeks explored what constituted the ideal citizen, they identified four qualities: physically fit and strong, emotionally balanced and mature, mentally agile…

Systems Methodology

Daily, we are exposed to information from a multitude of sources: the media, newspapers, radio, T. V., and the Internet. Generally this kind of…

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…

How Learning Works

Recently, I had a long conversation with my fifteen-year-old daughter, Elise, about why she had to learn algebra. I had helped her with a…

Leading Innovation: A Five-base Game

Over the last several years, the concept of innovation has increasingly been recognized as a key factor for business success. Where in the past,…

Action-to-Outcome Maps in Impact Assessment

During the last few years, our team at the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD) has been working on an important but little examined…