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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…
Confronting the Tension Between Learning and Performance
Few readers would disagree with the suggestion that those who develop and exercise a greater capacity to learn are likely to outperform those less…
Leading from the Future: A New Social Technology for Our Times
We live in a time of massive institutional failure, collectively creating results that nobody wants. Climate change. AIDS. Hunger. Poverty. Violence. Terrorism. Destruction of…
The Learning Construction Site: Unlearning and Rebuilding New Knowledge
I grew up and was educated in Rome, Italy. The European didactic style tends to be more theoretical and less interactive than that of…
Executive Empathy: Lincoln’s Antidote to Escalation
As we approach not only the November elections but also Lincoln’s 200th birthday, it seems appropriate to reflect on his legacy. Why do so…
Putting the “Relational” Back in Human Relationships
No systems thinker worthy of the name would argue that a single cause, close in time and space, produces a single result in any…
The World Café Goes Local: A Town Plans for the Future
On the evening of February 27, 2008, the town of Reading, Massachusetts (population 23,708) held its first World Café conversation. The event, open to…
Systems Thinking as a Team-Building Approach
The chief information officer (CIO) of the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, a research hospital with a large outpatient facility, faced a formidable…
Continuous Partial Attention and the Demise of Discretionary Time
Leaving work at the end of the day, I turn the corner to the long front hallway of my office building. Ahead of me,…
Leading the Shift from a Dominator to a Partnership Culture
A growing awareness that humankind is facing unprecedented challenges is making many of us uneasy. Our unease stems from an increasing sense that humanity’s…