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The Systems Thinking Leader

LDRLB

A key component of global leadership is complexity. I propose that dealing with cultures in the future will involve what Senge (1990) calls systems thinking. Within globalization, it involves understanding how countries work to influence each other. Developing global executives. Designing the global corporation.

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The Systems Thinking Leader

LDRLB

A key component of global leadership is complexity. I propose that dealing with cultures in the future will involve what Senge (1990) calls systems thinking. Within globalization, it involves understanding how countries work to influence each other. Developing global executives. Designing the global corporation.

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Judgment Calls

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

With an expanding global economy, a digital information explosion, and increasingly rapid pace of business, our world is too large, our organizations too complex. Since the 1990’s when Peter Senge popularized the notion of “learning organizations,” there has been a lot of discussion about attributes of great companies.

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Ask, Learn, Follow Up and Grow

Marshall Goldsmith

One global leader who spends a great deal of his life asking is George Weber, the secretary-general of the international Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Peter Senge has written extensively about the future importance of the learning organization. Merck, Motorola, Nortel, and Pfizer.

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The Embarrassment of Complexity

Harvard Business Review

It comes about as fields of knowledge are segmented into multiple domains, and each domain develops deep algorithmic knowledge and specialized tools that work by ignoring many of the variables actually in play. Roger Martin recently diagnosed a kind of complexity that is manufactured by us and largely unaddressed: inter-domain complexity.

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Our Self-Inflicted Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Of all the definitions, I like Peter Senge''s old but simple one best. Senge''s distinction between detail complexity (driven by the number of variables) and dynamic complexity (heightened by any subtlety between cause and effect) is not only key to explaining why some overhyped tools don''t deliver.

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