By using the systems archetypes we can learn how to “structure” the details into a coherent picture of the forces at play.

By using the systems archetypes we can learn how to “structure” the details into a coherent picture of the forces at play.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them.

A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.

In a sluggish system, aggressiveness produces instability. Either be patient or make the system more responsive.