Sublime

This, then, is the basic meaning of a “learning organization”—an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.

In fact, the essence of mastering systems thinking as a management discipline lies in seeing patterns where others see only events and forces to react to. Yet few are trained to see detail and dynamic complexity.

Gridlock results when individual actors continue to behave as if they were independent of everyone else— each pulling in a different direction,

But not every leader recognizes that his or her role requires just as much attention, or more, to design the emotional ambience of the leadership field and to develop the capacity to sense its boundaries. The stronger the field gets, the more chance that it will extend to customers, shareholders, and the network of competitors, suppliers, and globa

Team Learning—transforming conversational and collective thinking skills, so that groups of people can reliably develop intelligence and ability greater than the sum of individual members’ talents.

Getting consensus on some key aspects of the history can be insightful.

Moreover, since structure in human systems includes the “operating policies” of the decision makers in the system, redesigning our own decision making redesigns the system structure.

Moreover, since structure in human systems includes the “operating policies” of the decision makers in the system, redesigning our own decision making redesigns the system structure.

The real leverage in most management situations lies in understanding dynamic complexity, not detail complexity.