Topic: Organizational Learning

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Using the ‘Back of a Napkin’ to Assess Systems Equilibrium and Guide Change

In this information-rich and knowledge-based economy, new models, methods, and tools proliferate more rapidly than spam in our email inboxes. Yet there is one…

Systems Thinking as a Language

Language has a subtle, yet powerful effect on the way we view the world. English, like most other Western languages, is linear—its basic sentence…

Future Thinking by Middle Managers: A Neglected Necessity

This is a story about what happened to a group of technical managers working in a multinational corporation, the Big Can Corporation (BCC)*, when…

Creating the World Anew

In May I had the honor to give a talk at a major international conference on systems approaches to management in Vienna, as part…

The Inescapable Need to Change Our Organizations: An Interview with Peter Senge

The Systems Thinker (TST): What are the two or three new big ideas for management in the 21st century? Peter Senge: Organizations will have to…

The Potential of Talking and the Challenge of Listening

In December 2002, the entire world was arguing about what to do about Iraq. There were two sides to the argument. On one side,…

How Can We Solve Our Toughest Problems Peacefully?

For the past 15 years, I have focused all of my attention on answering one question: How can we solve our toughest problems peacefully?…