Why the Fifth Discipline Still Matters Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization is one of the most influential management books of the last three decades. It introduced the idea that organizations must be designed as learning systems capable of continuous improvement, not just short-term results. At the The post Peter Senge’s Fifth Discipline: Systems Thinking for Smarter Workflows appeared first on Kanban Zone: The Visual Management Platform t...| Kanban Zone: The Visual Management Platform that Solves your Workflow Challenges
This post offers a clear, practice-first guide to systems thinking, systemic design, systems innovation, and innovation systems – terms often used but seldom compared in plain language. It explores how they link, why clarity supports collaboration, and how each can strengthen projects and partnerships. One of the challenges of working in complex settings is the […] The post Systems thinking, systemic design, and systems innovation: what’s the difference? appeared first on learningforsus...| learningforsustainability.net
In complex settings, different practices like evaluation, co-design, systems thinking, social learning, and participatory action research often build on common foundations. This post brings together a set of recent reflections that explore these shared starting points: clarity of purpose, attention to context, relational work, and space for reflection and learning. Over the past year, many […] The post Exploring complexity: a thread through recent reflections appeared first on learningforsu...| learningforsustainability.net
Permaculture Womens Guild In times when you feel overrun by forces outside of your control, contemplating and designing the life you want to live is important self-care.| Permaculture Womens Guild
The system has constrained the ability for local innovation by drawing resources , power and control to the centre. If you’re part of publicly focused services you are part of that same syste…| Paul Taylor
This is Johanna Rothman's September 2025 Pragmatic Manager newsletter. The Unsubscribe link is at the bottom of this email. Humans excel at seeing problem signals—the signs that we have a problem. However, we often have blind spots about the root causes of those problems. Our beliefs and/or insufficient or irrelevant data reinforce those blind spots. […] The post How to See the Blind Spots That Maintain the Current System, Useful or Useless appeared first on Johanna Rothman.| Johanna Rothman
By Andrei Savu. Once you understand the basic concepts underpinning systems, what other concepts are key to understanding system dynamics? While systems thinking teaches you to see and shape system structure, system dynamics focuses on understanding nonlinear behavior over time. An additional four key concepts are added to five core concepts in systems thinking described ... Read more| Integration and Implementation Insights
By Andrei Savu. What concepts are key to understanding systems? A system is a set of interdependent elements whose coordinated interactions give rise to an outcome none of the pieces can deliver alone. The key word is relationship: change the relationships and the behavior of the whole shifts, even if every component remains identical. Five ... Read more| Integration and Implementation Insights
Systems thinking is a practical way to see the hidden connections inside your business. Forget reacting to isolated problems like slumping sales. Instead, it teaches you to see how the entire engine works together. This shift in perspective helps you uncover the real reasons behind nagging, recurrent issues, setting you| Think in Leverage
The post discusses the intersection of systems thinking and liberal arts education. It advocates for integrating core curriculum with vocational studies, suggesting that a well-designed interdisciplinary minor can enhance students' understanding of interconnected challenges. This approach fosters critical thinking and moral ambition, preparing graduates for modern workforce demands while addressing global issues.| vocation matters
Human civilisation is experiencing a Great Metamorphosis in which our energy, politics, economics, culture, values and worldviews are being completely rewritten.| Age of Transformation
If you don’t trust the intuitive systems thinkers in your organization, you are likely deleting the wrong things when it comes to simplifying software design.| Colin Breck
My lovely husband and I have spent the last couple of weeks sorting out the move down to Dorset and getting set up in our new place. It’s a process of working through which bits of our old life we want to bring with us and which we’re going leave with love behind in Sussex. This is a joyous (most of the time) process of decluttering and appreciation and we feel very lucky to be able to do it.| Catherine Howe
Today the solution to all the crises does not lie in individuality but recognizing our interdependence, building collaborative approaches in all areas of life, that break these isolating silos and help communities to work together. The post We will always Belong ( No matter what they say) first appeared on Work That Reconnects Network.| Work That Reconnects Network
OpenAI is absent from sponsored conferences in 2025—yet more present than ever. This post explores what their silence means, how it reflects a deeper strategic intelligence, and what educators, innovators, and system leaders can learn from it.| 🌀thisisGRAEME
Saving and amplifying these excellent few paragraphs Lynn Roberts posted on LinkedIn (I’ve abridged it a bit but the whole original post is word perfect): There’s always a temptation to focus on the extremes – the AI revolution or the broken CRM that needs replacing – instead of the more pedestrian truth in the middle. […] The post The unglamorous layer first appeared on Neil Williams.| Neil Williams
Blog 'Nothing surprises me... everything remains to be done!' by Vincent Liegey - It's been hard not to be flabbergasted by Donald Trump's...| Local Futures
My experience in formal education has been turbulent at best. I attended three fairly reputed schools in India and experienced them all through the lens of compromise. The post Creating Systems of Learning first appeared on Work That Reconnects Network.| Work That Reconnects Network
There is something puzzling about software development. It doesn’t work like many tasks, it doesn’t break down the same way. It feels strangely personal, like there’s a connection…| Jessitron
Not only can things be otherwise, they already are, and it is a matter of tuning, tending, activating, connecting, and defending these processes of change that are already in the making. Nick Montgomery and carla bergman, Joyful Militancy Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2025. The system is broken, it is getting worse, and ... Read moreThe world is terrible and great| Jessitron
OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) are a framework for validating alignment through the organization. As a company, as a department, as a team: what are we focused on this quarter? What are we try…| Jessitron
25 November 2024 by Phillip JohnstonI’m part of a “Papers in Systems” reading club, which meets monthly to discuss a chosen paper. This month we read the lecture transcript from Donald Schön’s 1970 REITH lecture series, session 2: Dynamic Conservatism (pdf). I found this to be a very enjoyable and insightful read, especially as someone who … Continue reading "Papers in Systems: Schön on Dynamic Conservatism" The post Papers in Systems: Schön on Dynamic Conservatism appeared firs...| Embedded Artistry
In multiplication, to get a non-zero product, all factors must be greater than 0. If one factor is 0, nothing else matters. \[\begin{align} 5 \times 2 \times 229 \times 0.2 &= 458.0\\ 5 \times 2 \times 229 \times 0.0 &= 0.0 \end{align}\] This xz/liblzma incident and the public post-morten discussion is a great illustration of why incident post-mortens shouldn’t be carried as a search for a root cause, but as a comprehensive enumeration of all contributing factors. You can model successful ...| Runtime Checks
This is the August 2024 Pragmatic Manager Newsletter, from Johanna Rothman. The Unsubscribe link is at the bottom of this email. Problems. They're always there, just waiting to pop up and say, “Surprise! Gotcha!” I don't mind new problems, but the sneaky problems, the ones that reappear after I thought I fixed them? I really […]| Johanna Rothman
Donella Meadows, an environmental scientist, activist, educator and founder of system dynamics, who lived sustainability, inspiring individuals and organizations.| Systems Thinking Alliance
Discover Jay Wright Forrester's profound legacy in System Dynamics. Explore his impact on various fields and enduring influence on research and teaching.| Systems Thinking Alliance
Are we are own worst enemy? The post Reusable KYC: when a dedication to decentralization self-sabotages appeared first on Philip Sheldrake.| Philip Sheldrake
First published to the AKASHA blog. Manning Publications has just published "Self-Sovereign Identity: Decentralized digital identity and verifiable credentials". Congratulations to the co-editors, Alex Preukschat and Drummond Reed, for getting 24 chapters, 5 appendices, and a further 11 online-only chapters out the door. No mean feat. My copy will drop on the doormat any day […] The post Self-Sovereign Identity — the book, the dystopia appeared first on Philip Sheldrake.| Philip Sheldrake
Are we our own worst enemy?| Generative Identity
“To be clear,” wrote Richard Murray and Siva Anandaciva last year in the Health Service Journal (The Wretchedness of NHS Financial Planning, July 2023 [£]), “this is not fraud.” Richard was then Ch…| The Policy Sketchbook
I have been pitching an idea for a while now which almost always lands well and which I can’t leave alone, so I thought I would put it out more widely in the universe and see what happens….| Catherine Howe
Interview with Bill Hunter, Brian Joiner and Peter Scholtes (listen to the interview) on a Public Affair, National Public Radio about improving management practices in the USA. The interview is over 30 years old now but the better management ideas are as true today as they were then.| management.curiouscatblog.net
The innovations created in the name of SSI need not deliver the dystopia their SSI form promises.| Generative Identity
Covering systems thinking and context, agency, hard borders, trust, trust triangles, and governance.| Generative Identity
For: [Virtual open Space] Systems Thinking and Skillful Interaction 20 September, 2023 Keynote by Jessica Kerr, jessitron.com These are my notes, publishing for people who were there (or anyone who…| Jessitron
This past year we became acutely aware of how interconnected we all are. The toilet paper shortage gave the world a glimpse at supply chains, and the pandemic as a whole was a crash course in how our healthcare system can handle crises. It can be difficult to envision how we can make a difference even if we know the systems we live in don’t function well for everyone. But what does this have to do with design? Designers make| Boxes and Arrows
