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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

As I wrote about the accountability mess , a good person in a bad system or process sets that them up for failure — and blame. About 85% of the time the fault is caused by the system, processes, structure, or practices of the organization. These core systems either boost or block performance.

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Disciplines of a Learning Organization: Peter Senge

QAspire

If there is one book that has influenced my business thinking the most, it is Peter Senge’s “ The Fifth Discipline – The Art and Practice of Learning Organization ” and I have referred to it many times over past years on this blog. Systems thinking – The Fifth Discipline that integrates the other four. Source: Wikipedia.

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Deming on Management: Appreciation for a System

Deming Institute

Appreciation for a system is one of the four aspects of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge (SoPK). In an earlier short post on this blog, I provided a short introduction to appreciation for a system within the Deming context. The view of an organization as a system by W. Are you a systems thinker?

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Leading Thoughts for November 18, 2021

Leading Blog

Peter Senge on getting to the root of the issue: “The bottom line of systems thinking is leverage—seeing where actions and changes in structures can lead to significant, enduring improvements. But the leverage in most real-life systems, such as most organizations, is not obvious to most of the actors in those systems.

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Leaders and the Learning Organization

You're Not the Boss of Me

There was a time when everyone was jumping onto The Learning Organization bandwagon. This usually happened when times were good, when organizations felt a little more ebullient about their prospects and generous toward their employees. Really, systems thinking is kind of like the plumbing in an old apartment complex.

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5 Key Lessons From Learning Organizations

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer 5 Key Lessons From Learning Organizations Problems, challenges and inefficiencies (in one way or the other) are a part of any organization. How organizations deal with them makes all the difference. In my career so far, I have (broadly) seen two kinds of organizations.

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The “String” Theory of Systems Management in Schools

Deming Institute

Might this proverb apply to systems leadership in schools, as well? Is “tunefulness” the optimal state for a system to best achieve its desired results? How might a leader promote a “tuneful harmony” so that the system that is neither too tightly or loosely “strung?”.

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