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Tag: systems thinking

How can you make learning stick when returning to work from a training course?

Posted on20th July 201528th July 2015AuthorMartin Sandbrook

How often have you been fired up by something you have learned on a development programme? You return to work the day after the course all ready to implement your new learning. Within hours, business as usual has swamped your…

CategoriesBlogTagsleadership, learning, strategic planning, systems thinking, training

“There is a crack in everything, that’s where the light gets in” by Martin Sandbrook

Posted on6th May 201528th July 2015AuthorMartin Sandbrook

When I came to the end of my MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice, I felt fully awake to the despair of the world. In common with others on the course, I felt both desperate and powerless in the face…

CategoriesBlogTagschange, managing change, sustainability, system change, systems thinking

The only certainty is uncertainty, by Martin Sandbrook

Posted on6th May 20157th May 2015AuthorMartin Sandbrook

Certainty holds sway. We are under its spell. The desire for certainty seems to pervade everything. But is certainty just a side-effect of rationalism, of our obsession with scientific knowing, where everything is seen as a set of reducible parts?…

CategoriesBlogTagslearning, sustainability, systems thinking

What are the most significant human inventions? by Martin Sandbrook

Posted on5th May 20157th May 2015AuthorMartin Sandbrook

This may surprise you, but, in my view, one of the most significant human inventions is not something electrical or mechanical. It is glass. I expect you will want to think about that for a moment, so, while you do,…

CategoriesBlogTagssystems thinking

Why does the way you see the world matter? by Martin Sandbook

Posted on5th May 20157th May 2015AuthorMartin Sandbrook

“Systems Thinking begins when you first see the world through the eyes of another” – Churchman When Copernicus announced, just about 500 years ago, that the sun does not go round the earth, can you imagine how big a challenge…

CategoriesBlogTagssustainability, systems thinking, worldviews

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