Systems thinking. [Part 1.]

by | 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...

Here we are. And there is where we want to be.

by | 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...