Resources

How can you leverage your influence as a member of a network? This month’s Change the World offers a Network Mapping Guide that allows you to look deeply into the patterns of interaction and decision making, opens insights that can increase your ability to leverage adaptive capacity, and helps you to see and understand the conditions that shape the patterns in your world.

Adaptive Action, Inquiry, and Pattern Logic are the foundations of HSD, but we have many other models and methods that support wise action in uncertain times. One that I have found useful this week is Questions in Uncertainty. I will share a cycle of reflection based on these questions with you, and invite you into one of your own. 

In using human systems dynamics to support clients, we work with organizations for whom traditional hierarchies and bureaucratic structures have become barriers to productivity, collaboration, and innovation. In large, loosely connected, more bureaucratic organizations, the structure is blamed for the often-heard complaints about silos; slow response times; lack of coherent, standard practice; and other organizational challenges.

Establishing justice is important, there is no doubt about that. But in order to change a situation, one has to recognize the dynamics at play.

Each shift, no matter how trivial it might seem in the moment, contributes to the growing tension. Over time, tension accumulates, and ultimately it shifts patterns at every level of the human system. Like an avalanche, a lifetime of love, or a violent society, every whole-scale transformation emerges from the many tiny ones that came before.

What constitutes a generative ecology for deep learning? In this blog, Royce talks about how school leaders at all scales can set conditions for deep learning ecologies.