Peter Senge: "Systems Thinking for a Better World" - Aalto Systems Forum 2014
systems thinking also needs the disciplines of building shared vision, mental models, team learning, and personal mastery to realize its potential. Building shared vision fosters a commitment to the long term. Mental models focus on the openness needed to unearth shortcomings in our present ways of seeing the world. Team learning develops the skill
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This linear systemic way of thinking is very common. The leader who thinks and behaves in this way may think of themselves as systemic – and they are systemic, because they are standing back, looking at the organization as a whole as if it is a system (a hot water system), and taking actions to tweak the system. These leaders may be encouraged in t
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Interview with Seth Godin: On Strategy, Stories & How to Hack Back
Matt Kleinzine.kleinkleinklein.com
leaders within these complex contexts are inclined to focus solely on their project or their sector at most, assuming that they can change things if they could just get the ear of those who seem to be in charge. Their inability to use a more complex and systemic mode of analysis blocks their access to more comprehensive and effective forms of perce
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