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Sharing the Bounty, Stewarding the Planet: Systems Thinking for Emerging Leaders
To grapple with the complexity of current challenges, leaders today need training in a variety of sophisticated tools and methodologies. To that end, Sustainability…
The Power of “And”: Fostering Creative Teams at Hydro Aluminum
How can we inspire individuals to contribute value to the whole company and not just their group or department? In 1998, Marianne M. Aamodt…
Intuition as a Key Factor for Implementing Theory U
As pointed out by many researchers and business coaches, the pace of change and complexity in organizations today is accelerating at an exponential rate.
Collective Leadership: A Process for Dialogue-Based Profound Change
One afternoon in May 1992, a teenage boy walked into Morning Star Baptist Church in Boston, MA, to attend a classmate’s funeral. Some gang…
Organizational Politics: Using Your Power for Good
What do you think of when you consider corporate politics? Do you think of backstabbing, gossip, and self-interest, or do you think of alliance…
Systemic Board Governance: Creating Virtuous Cycles of Impact
During these difficult times, nonprofit organizations often provide the backbone to many communities, offering a much-needed safety net for those in need. Behind the…
Mobilizing a Values-Based Culture in a Nonprofit Setting
In 2008, two mature domestic abuse agencies merged to form Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse in Tucson, Arizona. The Emerge! staff and board envisioned…
Being Heard: Strategies for Getting Your Point Across
We all want to be heard. It’s gratifying, empowering, and makes us feel valued. And in a difference of opinion, we want our side…
What I Learned About Teaching Systems Thinking from Al Gore
Let’s say you wanted to communicate the complexity of a system on the scale of the Earth to an audience with an 8th-grade education,…
Peak Performance
Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, wrote many years ago that we will see more change in the next 10 years than in the last…