Topic: Personal Mastery
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Pocket Guide: Systems Clues in Everyday Language
How many times have you heard someone say, “This is spiraling out of control”? When people use these kinds of phrases, they intuitively give hints…
Pocket Guide: Guidelines for Daily Systems Thinking Practice
This handy guide provides a reference tool for honing your systems thinking abilities every day. Shows you how to ask different kinds of questions to…
Unleashing an Avalanche of Change
The Pebble and the Avalanche: How Taking Things Apart Creates Revolutions (Berrett-Koehler, 2005) by Moshe Yudkowsky is an interesting, readable book that examines…
Comfort Zones
It’s a good thing we have comfort zones, those ways of acting and thinking that do not cause us stress or require much thought.
Using Systems Thinking to Talk with Teens about Texting
Last weekend, the parent network in our town was buzzing. A teen in a neighboring town had invited friends over for a party while…
I Am Your New Neighbor
I have moved to everyone’s neighborhood. No, I am not talking about my spate of real-estate acquisitions or my newfound mastery of time and…
Productive Conversations: Using Advocacy and Inquiry Effectively
We can gain leverage for improving conversations by paying attention to advocacy and inquiry. Advocacy is stating one’s views. Describing what I think, disclosing…
The Neuroscience of New Habits
According to the dictionary, a habit is “an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary.” Since we repeatedly think and…
Got Blame and Distrust in Your Workplace? Try a Little More Forgiveness.
How much of our lives have we wasted due to the drain of fear, unhealthy judgment, and the emotional gridlock these cause? Deborah…
Building Relationships with Respect at the Center
In the introduction to her book, Respect: An Exploration (Perseus Books, 1999), sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot observes that “We pay more attention to [respect] when…