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A System Leader's Fieldbook
About
How to Use This Fieldbook
Why a Fieldbook?
Fieldbook Partners
Questions for Getting Started
Foundational Ideas
Systems Concepts
Why We Use Nature as a Guide
Modules
Building Organizational Capacity to Focus on the Whole
Creating the Conditions for Shared Leadership
Developing Systems-Wise People
Engaging Stakeholders
Growing as a Systems Leader
Resources
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Videos
Articles
Stories of Practice
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Development of Self
Accidental Adversaries
Accidental Adversaries
Advocacy and Inquiry
Advocacy and Inquiry: A Useful Model
Balancing Loop
Balancing Loops
Creative Tension
Creative Tension
To Resolve New Year’s Resolutions by Robert Fritz
Deep Listening
Deep Listening
Physiological Changes, Video #9
Listening, Video #16
Design Thinking
Design Thinking
Feedback Loops
Reinforcing and Balancing Loops
Fixes That Backfire
Fixes That Backfire
Four Levels of Listening and Conversing
Graphic by Kelvy Bird
Otto Scharmer on the Four Levels of Listening
Habits of a Systems Thinker
Habits of a Systems Thinker
Journaling
Guided Journaling
Meditation and Journaling: Combining Practices to Reflect Your Inner World
Ladder of Inference
Ladder of Inference
Lefthand Column Exercise
Lefthand Column Exercise
Meditation
How to Meditate by David Gelles
Mental Models
Ladder of Inference
Lefthand Column Exercise
Mindfulness
3 Simple Steps to Mindfulness and Finding a Purposeful Life
What Is Mindfulness video with Jon Kabat-Zinn
Polarity Management or Both/And Thinking
Both the Parts and the Whole: Leadership and Systems Thinking by Col. George E. Reed
Prototyping
Prototyping
Design Thinking: Get Started with Prototyping
Reinforcing Loops
Reinforcing Feedback
System Archetypes
Accidental Adversaries
Tragedy of the Commons
Fixes that Backfire
Systems Thinking Iceberg
Principles of Systems Thinking
How to See "Structure"
Tragedy of the Commons
Tragedy of the Commons
Development of Team
Accidental Adversaries
Accidental Adversaries
Action Learning
Action Learning
Advocacy and Inquiry
Advocacy and Inquiry: A Useful Model
After Action Review
After Action Review
Appreciative Inquiry
Introduction to Appreciative Inquiry
Appreciative Inquiry
Balancing Loop
Reinforcing and Balancing Loops: Building Blocks of Dynamic Systems by Daniel Kim
Case Clinic
Case Clinic
Check-In
“How to Start a Meeting” by Kristin Cobble
“Check-in Check-out”
The Check-In by Flip the Clinic
The “Check-In” as a Tool for Co-Sensing
Connection Circles
Connection Circles
Cycle of Value Diagnostic
Align, Act, Adjust
Cycle of Value Diagnostic
Deep Listening
Deep Listening
Physiological Changes, Video #9
Listening, Video #16
Design Thinking
Design Thinking
Dialogue Interviews
Dialogue Interviews
Dialogue Interviews
Feedback Loops
Reinforcing and Balancing Loops: Building Blocks of Dynamic Systems by Daniel Kim
Fixes that Backfire
Fixes that Backfire
Four-Player Model
Four-Player Model
Historical Mapping
Historical Mapping
Ladder of Inference
Ladder of Inference
Lefthand Column Exercise
Left Hand Column Exercise: Leading Ideas: Surface your Difficult Issues
Liberating Structures
Liberating Structures
Mental Models
Ladder of Inference
Left Hand Column Exercise: Leading Ideas: Surface your Difficult Issues
Paired Walks
Paired Walks
Peer Coaching
Peer Assist
Dialogue Interviews
Prototyping
Prototyping
Design Thinking: Get Started with Prototyping
Reinforcing Loop
Reinforcing Feedback
Learning Journeys/Sensing Journeys
Learning/Sensing Journeys
System Archetypes
Accidental Adversaries
Tragedy of the Commons
Fixes that Backfire
Systems Thinking Iceberg
Introduction to Systems Thinking
Using the Iceberg on the Job
The Conversation Meter
The Conversation Meter
Moving Up the Meter Handout
Conversation Prep Chart video #17
Conversation Prep Chart
Communication vs. Conversation video #2
Purposes and Concerns video #7
Tragedy of the Commons
Tragedy of the Commons
Development of System
Collective Impact Framework
Collective Impact Framework
John Kania and Mark Kramer, “Collective Impact,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2011
Design Thinking
Design Thinking
Stakeholder Interviews
Stakeholder Interviews
Stakeholder Analysis
Stakeholder Analysis
Stretch Collaboration
Stretch Collaboration
Systems Mapping
Systems Mapping
Connection Circles
Systems Thinking Iceberg
Introduction to Systems Thinking
How to See Structure
The World Cafe
The World Cafe
Development of Organization
Action Learning
Action Learning
After Action Review
After Action Review
Cycle of Value Diagnostic
Align, Act, Adjust
Cycle of Value Diagnostic
Design Thinking
Design Thinking
Dialogue Interviews
Dialogue Interviews
Dialogue Interviews
Historical Mapping
Historical Mapping
Immunity to Change
“How to Overcome Immunity to Change,” by Jessie Sholl, Experience Life, May 2011
Immunity to Change Worksheet
Prototyping
Prototyping
Design Thinking: Get Started with Prototyping
Learning Journeys/Sensing Journeys
Learning/Sensing Journeys
Stakeholder Analysis
Stakeholder Analysis
Stakeholder Interviews
Stakeholder Interviews
Stretch Collaboration
Stretch Collaboration
Systems Mapping
Systems Mapping
Connection Circles
Systems Thinking Iceberg
Principles of Systems Thinking
How to See Structure
The World Cafe
The World Cafe