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Short pieces on why strategy, leadership and culture problems keep coming back, and what changes them. By Sean Blair, author of The Systems Synergy.
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Why your strategic planning sessions don't change behaviour
Strategic planning examines position, priorities and resources, but rarely the hidden forces that actually drive how people behave. When the plan and those forces conflict, the hidden forces win.
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Could Singapore lead the world's next management revolution?
Singapore already runs on systems thinking, from Changi to SkillsFuture's sixteen core competencies, which are really one capability. The piece asks whether Singapore could do for management what the Bauhaus did for design.
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The 1990 management book that predicted what leaders would need in the age of AI
Peter Senge described the capabilities AI cannot replicate: seeing wholes, surfacing mental models, building shared vision. For thirty-five years what was missing was a practical way for teams to develop them together.
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Want training to stick? Work with the system
Significant L&D investment underdelivers not because the learning was poorly designed, but because the system the learner returns to is more powerful than the intervention.
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Making systems thinking visible: five stages a team can build
For decades, systems thinking has suffered from a visualisation problem. The SeriousWork Systems Thinking Model© turns Donella Meadows' definition of a system into five stages a team can build.
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