Topic: Personal Mastery
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Spiritual Intelligence: A New Paradigm for Collaborative Action
What makes a great collaboration? One view is that a collaboration is only as great as the individuals who collaborate within it. Another is…
How Learning Works
Recently, I had a long conversation with my fifteen-year-old daughter, Elise, about why she had to learn algebra. I had helped her with a…
Partnership Coaching
Iwant you to create the new print ad campaign. Here’s a copy of what we’ve done in the past and a summary of my…
A New Path to Understanding Systems Thinking
Many readers will recognize this scenario: A group in your department is planning a highly complex project, but the conversations you’re hearing about it…
The New Facts of Life: Connecting the Dots on Food, Health, and the Environment
A discussion of the interrelations between food, health, and the environment is extremely topical today. Rising food prices together with the price of oil…
The World Café Goes Local: A Town Plans for the Future
On the evening of February 27, 2008, the town of Reading, Massachusetts (population 23,708) held its first World Café conversation. The event, open to…
The Learner’s Path
In my previous article, Confessions of a Recovering Knower(The Systems Thinker Vol. 16, No. 7), I described my journey from being a knower to…
Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization
It is the bottom of the ninth. The game clock ticks to zero. The goalie has a weak knee; the star forward has five…
Confluence of Process and Technology Brings Two Companies Closer Together
This is the tale of a powerful, synergistic confluence of process and technology at a three-day strategic conversation last December that moved two large…
Changing Behavior in Organizations: The Practice of Empowerment
Empowerment is the process of enabling individuals to adopt new behaviors that further their individual aspirations and those of their organizations. This article presents…