Dear all, Hope this mail finds you having a wonderful start to the New Year for you and your family. We are happy to bring you the LOPN NewsFlash for the brand...
The topic is on sustainability with a particular emphasis on 'sustainability of living' - ways (wo)man and nature co-exists. We are expecting anywhere between...
I always find Einstein's way of thinking fascinating! Hope you like it too! TA would you send a copy of this to Tra Mi? Thank you! Warmly Sheila Singapore ...
Hi folks, I wanted to share this - an interesting article in one of SOL's latest Journal (Vol 6, no 4) on systems intelligence.(see pdf file in the link) At...
Really liked this article ... http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/analysis/view/252094/1/.html I hope you like it too! Try reading this in a very wet and...
... I read this article of systems intelligence. I found it quite confusing. When we learn something we go through the four stages: unconscious incompetence -...
Thanks Sanjiv. Welcome to LOPN from India! Would you share something about yourself here? I thought it would be great for the rest of us to also know your...
I fully subscribe to what Sanjiv has said. Sanjiv pointed out "the process" of becoming a "systems thinker" (with so-called systems intelligence), which sounds...
Dear all, For those who know Joey knows how much his heart is set right on wanting to understand people and when most of us would shy away from Argyris he went...
Hi Sanjiv, I think the authors wanted to convey the distinction that when one practices systems thinking, one would attempt to understand the (larger)...
Greetings from Seattle (the site of the 2007 Systems Thinking in Action conference!) ~ I've been happily reading the conversations of the LOPN group since...
Hi Sanjiv allow me to use an analogy. before we have seen a bicycle, we do not know such skill as riding a bicycle existed. after seeing someone ride one, we...
Hi Sheila, I felt the same way with you on assumption 2, but did not mention it because I wanted to hear thoughts of others... On assumption 1, I have not been...
Sheila can I take a look from another perspective? this is a reflection of my own experience. to make sense of this world, I have over the years (ahem!)...
... Nalani Linder's response gave me this whacky idea. Can one use one's 'systemic intelligence' without formally learning systems thinking ? When I looked at...
The two things that struck me at the Forum was: To contain Global Warming is not to "do more" but think of ways to do less. Many things that lead to our earth...
Know the story of the cripple and the blind man both lamenting they could not find their way out of the forest (Senge, pg 167). Eventually, the cripple asked...
I learnt from the Forum: Rajinder shared The Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR http://www.wotr.org/index.htm ) programmes in India and wowed us with many...
If we have to 'say we NEED to innovate' at some level there is an innate need not to. How come? I came across this inventions timeline a few days ago. ...
It is a shame that innovations DOES NOT abound here in Singapore in a concerted way. We have our "hot pockets" but your comment of resting on our laurels seems...
Hmm ... I am hearing here from Ernest the willingness to veer off the beaten track that has been proven right (the tried and tested) because people don't ...
A second two cents worth, To come back to some of the points that Ernest makes. He is right innovation can only be developed SO MUCH through a systematic...
Sheila some familiar quotes from several famous personality: “If the people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at...
I was reading and enjoying this article when I saw Henry's entry. I felt really joyful reading it and of course happy it is coming by even as we are having...
Sheila what I sent ties in with what I have shared previously in thinking systemically. we get good in what we are doing by practise, practise and practise...
Thanks for these. Would you like to test in what ways others feel the same or differently about the reflections you have here? I am hearing two pieces here: -...
The piece that struck me here, Paul is, the need to convert our (might I add, not everytime but often enough, mindless) hands and feet into thinking mind(s)...