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Leading Thoughts for November 18, 2021

Leading Blog

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. 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.

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Consider: Harnessing the Power of Reflective Thinking in Your Organization

Leading Blog

Peter Senge, founder of the Society of Organizational Learning and senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, once observed, “Most managers do not reflect carefully on their actions.” That makes Consider: Harnessing the Power of Reflective Thinking in Your Organization , one of the most important books you’ll read this year.

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Looking Back at 2018

QAspire

Peter Senge on Leadership Development. Labor of love is powerful. Applying what you learn is powerful. Nancy Duarte on Storytelling in Business. Leadership: Humility and Focusing on Others. On Disrupting Yourself. Share to Learn. 5 Pointers on How to Think Clearly. On Learning Slowly. My biggest lesson from all this?

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The “String” Theory of Systems Management in Schools

Deming Institute

Anyone who takes a systems perspective with regard to educational leadership likely understands and appreciates the power of these words. Management, in this context, is not simply attending to rudimentary mechanistic facets of the job, which Dr. Peter Senge refers to as “detail complexity.”

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Judgment Calls

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

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. Being guided by a powerful organizational culture that values participation, diversity, challenge and debate. This is not a new discussion.

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My 2020 Story and a Few Lessons Along the Way

QAspire

Family, health, relationships, independence, being able to reinvent the self, learn at the speed of change, being grateful and willing to help/enable others and having humility to receive gracefully from others are all forms of wealth that we often sacrifice for visible metrics of wealth and power. Letting Go is powerful. More here ).

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How to Avoid 3 Big Mistakes About Being Biased

Lead Change Blog

Scientist Peter Senge wrote about how success messes with our ability to reason. In that space is our power to choose our response. Accept as a fundamental premise that different isn’t wrong, just different. Bias mistake #3: Believing that an outlook isn’t biased because the data supports it. A human being is a deciding being.

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