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Five Change Leadership Practices for the Next Decade

Lead Change Blog

Professors Ivan Robertson and Sir Cary Cooper have been pioneers for workplace wellbeing for around twenty years. Better still, create the time to explore Peter Senge’s book The Fifth Discipline , and learn and practice tools such as the Ladder of Inference. Peter Senge also described in his book how to buildi a learning organisation.

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Making Work Better. Small Changes in the Right Direction

Mike Cardus

That together we can understand mutual goals and seek cooperation to make work better. Images Leadership Leadership Coaching Organization Development Solution-Focused Team Building making teams better michael cardus senge small changes into large results systems drive behavior systems theory' What do you think?

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Systems Thinking: Feedback Loops

Deming Institute

As people gain trust (and fear reduces) people are more willing to be trusting and cooperate, that behavior then encourages more of that behavior and so on. Related: Peter Senge on Systems Thinking – Building a Great Software Development Team – Deming 101: Understanding Systems. Balancing loops.

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The Embarrassment of Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Martin, quoting Peter Senge, refers to the problem that in situations of dynamic complexity, the links between causes and effects are “subtle.” Let us be clear: No human group can survive, let alone effectively cooperate, without being able to develop a shared outlook on the world which is the precondition for acting together.

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An Interview with Larry Spears, a Servant-Leadership Legend

Modern Servant Leader

I think the work that Duane Trammell and Ann McGee-Cooper and their associates have been doing with companies like Southwest Airlines and TDIndustries are stellar examples of what can be done within organizations once they make a commitment to servant-leadership. It is kind of a companion volume to Servant Leadership.

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An Interview with Larry Spears, a Servant-Leadership Legend

Modern Servant Leader

I think the work that Duane Trammell and Ann McGee-Cooper and their associates have been doing with companies like Southwest Airlines and TDIndustries are stellar examples of what can be done within organizations once they make a commitment to servant-leadership. It is kind of a companion volume to Servant Leadership.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

He was 90 when he wrote the following to Peter Senge (who recounted the correspondence in his influential The Fifth Discipline ): Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. Senge, too, wondered why these rare examples of Deming in action aren’t proliferating.

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