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• George Orwell Would Love Congress

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 106
  George Orwell–author of the book 1984–would love our Congress. In addition to “Big Brother is watching you,” Orwell invented the word newspeak : saying or writing common words and phrases while meaning their opposite. In newspeak, firemen start fires. Our Congress speaks newspeak. The continuous crisis that ...
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• The CEO is Only One Person

  
  Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog — Authority: 457
  The CEO is important but they are only one person. Rarely do they determine the success of a company. The instances where they seem to are so rare as to almost seem like just random luck. I think they can make a difference, but that they make a significant difference rarely. Steve Jobs seems to have made a huge ...
  5 days ago

• Triumph of Censorship: My Final Posting (Attempt) on HuffingtonPost

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 106
  I doubt you will read this. However, I must write it. (Whether this appears on HuffingtonPost.com–HuffPo–or not, it will be posted to www.thesystemmd.com. and other sites.) The first Right in the Bill of Rights is free speech. An effective democracy rises or falls on the open exchange of ideas, if necessary with ...
  5 days ago

• Concept Maps

  
  The New Professional's Leverage Points — Authority: 127
  Concept maps are graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge. They include: Concepts – usually enclosed in circles or boxes of some type, and Relationships between concepts – indicated by a connecting line linking two concepts. Documentation for the software Flying Logic (which helps create ...
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• Habits

  
  Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog — Authority: 457
  Some things about what people do also have their roots in psychology. Deming had an understanding of psychology as one of 4 areas in his system of management . A huge factor in what people do is based on what they are used to doing – habits. It is often difficult for people to change – not necessarily ...
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• Tell me about the people in your life and I will show you a successful business and a blossoming career

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 478
  Our strengths are our connections to the environment Our strengths are not in ourselves.  They are in our connections with our environment.  So says Ralph Stacey, complexity theorist at University of Hertfordshire. What on earth does he mean?  Is this just some abstruse idea that I can safely ignore?  Is it some ...
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• In Praise of Russell Ackoff

  
  John Gaynard on Creativity and Innovation — Authority: 125
  Russell Ackoff, one of the greatest systems thinkers of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st passed away on October 29th aged 90. May he rest in peace. There is a very good obituary on the Economist website which pays tribute to the man by giving details of his thinking. Here is an excerpt: "The ...
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• Relieve your stress. Live outside your tunnel vision

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 478
  Undivided Wholeness in Flowing Motion David Bohm ’s concept of “Undivided Wholeness in Flowing Motion.” is so hard to understand for we western-raised psychologists. David Bohm was a American quantum physicist who got himself into trouble by refusing to testify to the Non-American Activities (McCarthy) ...
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• In the Bubble, by John Thackara

  
  Melodies In Marketing — Authority: 114
  Earlier this year I bought myself a copy of John Thackara’s “ In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World ”, to get a glimpse of what this designer/futurist had to say about sustainability and society. While published in 2005, the content didn’t seem a bit dated as some business and trend books usually do. In ...
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• Frontline first

  
  The Great E-mancipator — Authority: 414
  Hot off the press from the Cabinet Office comes a pre-budget website. I’ve not absorbed the material but a lot of what has been suggested by all parties seems to have made its way into these plans. At first view it doesn’t appear to be the most accessible website I’ve seen, but I’m sure others can check that. ...
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• The greatest leaders spark curiosity about the system

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 478
  Our goal had gone walkabout On my travels, I found myself teaching systems thinking in a university which broke a large course into 25 student groups. A few people determined the curriculum and an army of people taught students who wrote a common examination. I was shocked by the examination papers. Students ...
  2 weeks ago

• Would You Compromise Your Cancer Cure?

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 106
  Your doctor has good news and bad news. The bad news is you have cancer in your abdomen. The good news is that it can be cured, using a combination of three drugs and ten radiation treatments. Would you settle for just two of the three drugs? Would you compromise your medical care and take one drug the doctor ...
  2 weeks ago

• TOC Strategy and Tactic Trees

  
  The New Professional's Leverage Points — Authority: 127
  Watch the short but knowledge-packed video with Alan Barnard on the use of TOC Strategy and Tactic Trees: The tree is only as valid as our assumptions. First we make assumptions about why the change is necessary to achieve the top objective Second, we ask why the specific objective or strategy is possible, or ...
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• Structural Tension Charting

  
  The New Professional's Leverage Points — Authority: 127
  Structural Tension Charting 
radically improves your approach to managing business and life. I have taken Robert Fritz concept of Structural Tension Charting and combined it with my own integrations and the work of other noteables such as Peter Senge and Eli Goldratt to create what I am currently calling an Outcome ...
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• System Neglect

  
  carpe factum — Authority: 120
  Theres a sad irony to this post.  As the readers of this blog know, I used a tactical police approach to express the elements of systems thinking for my next book.  Beyond looking at one system, SWAT - Seize the Accomplishment also looks at the relationship AMONG systems.  SWAT also stands for "Systems ...
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• Why it pays to think about the whole system, not just your local function

  
  dancingmango — Authority: 112
  Ability to do bulk price mark-downs? Nice to have. Today we are looking at a large UK supermarket stock control system.  At the end of the day the staff mark down prices on the short-life items (sandwiches etc).  They have a hand held scanner with a belt printer.  Scan item - print label - stick label on item. ...
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• 5 ways to tell a winning organization from an organization on a losing track

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 478
  Select your organization well!  Your well being depends upon it. We all want to see ahead.  I am going to tell you that we cannot. Yet we as surely as we court disaster when we get behind the wheel of the car when we have been drinking, we can run our organizations recklessly. You will get out of a car that is ...
  3 weeks ago

• How Do You Solve a Problem Like Salahis?

  
  carpe factum — Authority: 120
  Party crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi have everybody up in arms at the White House.  Our reality-tv-fame-seeking society appears to have prompted this pair to crash the Obamas first State Dinner, honoring the Singhs of India. Well see if the ensuing publicity battle bares out whether the camera-hungry couple ...
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• Dont Try This At Home

  
  carpe factum — Authority: 120
  My younger daughter was asked to share with her daycare class how to bake a turkey.  Her response is listed in the picture.  Um... I think we need some lessons on systems thinking.  Theres a really simple lesson here:  If youre not sure of your inputs OR your processes, the end result could be a real turkey. ...
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• Coal Miner Deaths

  
  popular logistics — Authority: 420
  In China, 407 Coal Miners Died THIS YEAR . 104 Died THIS WEEKEND in the Xinxing coal mine - described by Chinese authorities as a SAFE mine. 528 miners were underground at the time of the explosion - in which 19.7% of the miners were killed! China Mine Disaster How many miners die each year per ton of ...
  3 weeks ago

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