Topic: Organizational Learning
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Large-Scale Projects as Complex Systems: Managing “Scope Creep”
C.Northcote Parkinson’s now famous adage, “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion,” may be overly optimistic. Unfortunately, work tends…
Emergent Learning in Action: The After Action Review
Since the Industrial Revolution, our organizations and society at large have held three biases regarding learning. First, the transmission of knowledge from an outside…
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…
Core Resources of Paradigm-Change Facilitation
TEAM TIP To fundamentally change the system you are in instead of making surface-level fixes, you and your team members must reinvent your- selves…
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,…
Schools That Learn: Context and Engagement
In 1988, the first systems thinking classes were started at Orange Grove Middle School in Tucson, Arizona, instigated by Frank Draper, a science teacher,…
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,…
Leveraging the Assets of Older Workers
There’s a tempest brewing in the American workplace. The graying of the vast baby-boomer generation, cultural misconceptions about aging, and an impoverished sense of…
The Upward Spiral: Bootstrapping Systemic Change
Being a systems thinker means seeing opportunity everywhere. Systems thinkers know that teams, organizations, and societies can multiply their positive impact by reducing delays,…
Dialogue-Based Forums for Healthcare Organizations
Although people in most industries can fall prey to organizational dynamics based on advocacy, power and control, personal agendas, and blame, nowhere is this…