I grew up and was educated in Rome, Italy. The European didactic style tends to be more theoretical and less interactive than that of…

As companies struggle to meet the growing need for quick responses to strategic opportunities and dangers, a profound evolutionary process has been unfolding over…

Since the mid-1990s, a tidal wave of firms have begun outsourcing all or part of their products and services. The two remaining U. S.

Have you ever tried to drive on the left side of the road if you are born in a country in which one drives…

Consider all the learning that occurs as people move from place to place inside and outside an organization, carrying insights and ideas from one…

Today, many management theorists and practitioners argue that organizations are attempting to move from one paradigm, or worldview, to another (see “How Dialogue Supports…

Imagine yourself walking from your car to the office. On the small patch of lawn adjacent to the parking lot, you see 20 employees…

As readers of this newsletter are aware, systems thinking is evolving as an alternative to the old paradigms. Richard Mattessich wrote that “systems thinking…

Roger and his wife June had been struggling with differing views about how to bring up their children. Recently, Roger attended a program about…

Snce the emergence of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s, an array of technologies and tools has evolved at an exponentially increasing…