Why few organizations adopt systems thinking

Russell Ackoff wondered about that in his blog posting today. More than just considering that question, he wrote of ways we can learn to learn more effectively from the decisions we make.

He closes with a request that we end our published articles with a statement how we intend to affect the behavior or thinking of the reader. Here's my list for this short posting:

• I want to get some of you (and me, more of the time) to try his Decision Record idea. That's very related to the learning logs Bob Williams and I developed, with extra emphasis on our decisions not to act. It's very related to a idea from Peter Drucker mentioned on page 101 of Effective Change Management Using Action Research and Action Learning: Concepts, Frameworks, Processes and Applications
• I want you to ask me if I use jargon in ways you don't understand. If you don't understand something, it's likely others didn't, either. It may even be that I didn't understand it, at least not well enough to get my point across. Perhaps we'll all benefit by your asking a question either in a blog comment or by email or phone.

Thanks!