Peter Senge - Navigating Webs of Interdependence

Whether you are part of a family, organizational team or business in a supply chain, systems thinking is a valuable approach to understanding the complexity of today's world. Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline, Senior lecturer at MIT and Founder of the Society for Organizational Learning shares his perspectives on leadership and systems thinking with IBM. Senge focuses on the problems that are most difficult to solve and the mental models today's leaders need in order to build a smarter planet. Leaders today need to be able to be prepared reassess their strategies, work across multiple groups to find solutions and have the vision to work through high leverage solutions over time. Working smarter means working in ways that are collective and are based on collective intelligence across cities and supply chains to produce social, ecological and economic well being.

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[Adeel Khan]

"the smartness we need is collective" (Not individualistic)

[Sarah Verwei]

the term system thinking..the words are problematic, because the vision that pops up is about a associate and it is not we want to help people understand, are you part of a family? producing conscequences, how does it happen? it grounds people to tell stories, and the reality is that we live in interdependance, key players, produces outcomes to uderstand how it is that the problems we are deal with are about, to get a perspective and get an inside. Commitment to learning, develop can take years

[Bridget Marsh]

So the question i am seeing is how do I help small businesses take a longer term view? To do that they need first to have the lowest rungs of Maslow's hierarchy taken care of. And then ask: What is the problem we see? In a connected world how are we part of the problem? Who else needs to be part of this conversation?

[Byazviews]

How do problems come about? That's the question!

The answer: dedicated learning by combining viewpoints!

Collective smartness! That's what we should aim for!

I love this video!

[jimwrvt]

You folks really should be publishing these videos in something higher than 360 pixel resolution. 720 should be the minimum.