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Client & Workshop Comments
2/12/03
Client and workshop comments.

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Website Traffic Increasing
4/12/07
Website Traffic has been increasing at what is, for me, a surprising rate.

Systems Thoughts
On Freedom
2/16/05
"Freedom" is more than the ability to take action; it's the ability to take effective action. When we're dealing with dynamically complex systems, we're not equipped to take effective action without systems thinking and system dynamics. We are in effect "prisoners of our own thinking."

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Repent
3/22/05
"Metanoia" is the Greek word for a "shift of mind," translated in the Catholic corpus as "repent."

Systems Thoughts
Heresy
1/24/08
The origin of the word, heresy, is "choice." That's not allowed.

Systems Thoughts
"Maya": Illusion
3/22/05
What's real and what's illusion? The word "measure" and the Sanscrit word, maya, have the same root ... and maya is the ancient word for "illusion" ... implying that what we can measure is the illusion.

Systems Thoughts
What's Spirit Got to Do with It?
2/07/03
How could something as apparently intellectual, academic and theoretical as systems thinking be related to spirituality ... to Spirit? From the systems thinking perspective we see that everything is connected, and that's a central message of spirituality.

Systems Thoughts
Primacy of the Whole
9/01/06
The "primacy of the whole" is a major systems principle that makes clear we must attend to both the collective and the individual.

Systems Thoughts
Mental Models & Beliefs
9/4/06
John Sterman on the need to examine mental models (beliefs) and on how all decisions are based on models -- and the "mental models" we use are models -- and all models are wrong.

Systems Thoughts
Change
8/5/09
The rate of change is accelerating.

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Workshop Overview
12/4/02
Facilitation, exponential improvement, and strategy workshops progressively develop capabilities for short-term to longer-term improvement.

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Facilitating Group Action
11/04/01
Uses the "Wheel of Learning" to enable groups to overcome "group multiple personality disorder." The best ideas rise to the surface, instead of settling for the lowest common denominator ideas. This approach reduces conflict and groups become more efficient, effective, and adaptable.

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