Leading Through Conflict: How Successful Leaders Transform Differences into Opportunities

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Systems Thinking

SYSTEMS THINKING: identifying all (or as many as possible) of the significant elements related to the conflict and understanding the relationship between them

Background: Drawing Better Boundaries

Where do you define the boundaries of the system of which you are a part? This is one of the most critical leadership questions today.

—Ronald Heifetz, JFK School of Government, Harvard University

I think our very survival depends on our being better systems thinkers.

—Margaret Wheatley, Leadership and the New Science

If integral vision is the goal, then systems thinking is the means to that goal. If integral vision extends our vision beyond our own identities, then systems thinking enables us to map the territory. ...