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Peter Senge on Leadership Development

QAspire

Peter Senge on Developing Leaders. “ The Fifth Discipline – The Art and Practice of Learning Organization ” by Peter Senge is such a profound book that each time I revisit it, I find something deep in a way that it serves as a timely reminder for initiatives that I may be working on. Related Posts at QAspire.com.

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Peter Senge: How to Overcome Learning Disabilities in Organizations

QAspire

In quest to make these teams accountable, very specific KPI’s are established and that breeds non-systemic thinking. People look at meeting their own numbers and push the work to next stage and often, what happens is that while people win (in short term), the system fails. On “Systems Thinking” and Improvement.

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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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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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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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Disciplines of a Learning Organization: Peter Senge

QAspire

This question immediately reminded me of five disciplines of learning organizations that Peter Senge outlines in this book. Systems thinking – The Fifth Discipline that integrates the other four. You can only understand the system of rainstorm by contemplating the whole not any part of the pattern. Source: Wikipedia.

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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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