by Gil Friend | Apr 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Last week I began a conversation with you (and my Inside Sustainability subscribers) about “What’s beyond sustainability?”—and promised to continue this week what I’m thinking now. It’s this: The best of “sustainability”—for all the...
by Gil Friend | Apr 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’ve written the last few weeks about systems thinking, its power and challenges. (You can catch up here and here.) Here’s where that thinking is currently taking me. For all of the initiatives around sustainability over the past couple of decades, for all...
by Gil Friend | Mar 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
(Last week, I wrote about the power of systems thinking, my history with it, and some of the risks of taking a systems perspective for granted, rather than making a conscious effort to bridge the conceptual divide. I promised to continue with some suggestions.)...
by Gil Friend | Mar 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
Systems thinking. It’s trending. It’s cool. It’s not a panacea. (Hunter Lovins and I would blast a claxon horn at our Presidio MBA students whenever they used “systems thinking” as a selling point in their pitch presentations—as though it...
by Gil Friend | Mar 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
Here we are. And there is where we want to be. There’s a third player in this drama, of course: the obstacles—or at least gaps— that stand between here and there. Theories abound about what to do: Meticulously plan how to get there from here, mapping each step...
