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Systems Thinking Research & Leadership Development Institute (STRLDi)

Systems Thinking Research & Leadership Development Institute (STRLDi)

Strategy Consulting & Corporate Development Training for Learning Organizations

  • About The Organization
    • Personal Letter to Systemic Leaders & Institutions
      • ONE-PAGE CALL TO ACTION
    • About Our Work & STRLDi
      • My Journey and Development as a practitioner of The Fifth Discipline, my Milestones
      • The mistake we make with this work …
      • Misunderstanding The Disciplines: When The Fifth Discipline Is Adopted but Misaligned
        • Building the Second Arm of Humanity: When Learning Must Lead
      • The Story of My Turning Points with The Fifth Discipline
      • The Big Question on The Voice
      • About Peter Senge, the Author
        • Pre-session Pop Quiz #1
          • Pre-session Pop Quiz #1 Answers
    • Blog
  • Chapter 1: Introductions – Why Learning Organizations?
    • The History
    • How Would This Programme Work For Me?
    • Training Proposal Template
    • Programme Flow – A Framework for Developing Competencies in The Fifth Discipline (TFD)
      • STRLDi Introductory Session Briefs (1/2 day)
      • STRLDi Programme Introduction (2 days): Leaders for Learning Organizations @ Work
      • STRLDi Programme Advanced Beginner (3 days): Deepening The Systems Thinking Discipline Practice
      • STRLDi Programme Design: The CEO’s Table – Learning to Create Productive Team Conversations
      • STRLDi Programme Design: Leading the Leader
      • STRLDi Programme Design: The Five-Module Bronze Certification – Leaders for Learning Organisations
        • Programme Post-Graduate: Leaders for Learning Organizations @ Work
      • Reference Books & Videos
      • Programme House Rules & Room Setup
      • FAQs
  • Chapter 2: The Practice at the Heart of A Learning Organization
    • The Seven Disabilities for Learning
    • The Three Core Learning Organization Capabilities
    • Practices from the Field
  • Chapter 3: Seeing Dynamic Complexity
    • Why Do (some) Problems Defy, no, NOT Change?
    • Two ways
    • Systems Thinking – Understanding The Onion, Understanding Our World Today
      • How the Onion Was Discovered
    • Introduction to Systems Thinking
    • When we say solved, what does it mean?
    • The Laws That Govern Dynamic Complexities [NEW & UPDATED]
      • Law #1: Today’s Problems Come From Yesterday’s Solutions
      • Law #2: The Harder You Push, the Harder the System Pushes Back
      • Law #3: Behaviour Grows Better Before It Grows Worse
      • Law #4: The Easy Way Out Usually Leads Back In
      • Law #5: The Cure Can Be Worse Than The Disease
      • Law #6: Slower (and consistent) is Faster
      • Law #7: Cause and Effect are not Closely Related in Time and Space
      • Law #8: Small (consistent) Changes can Produce Big Results But the Areas of the Highest Leverage are often the Least Obvious
      • Law #9: You Can Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
      • Law #10: Dividing an Elephant in Half does not Produce Two Small Elephants
      • Law #11: There is No Blame
    • The Language of Systems Thinking
    • Uncovering System Archetypes (Systemic Structures)
    • System Archetypes
      • The Behavior of the Reinforcing Loop (RL)
      • The Behavior of the Balancing Loop (BL)
      • Accidental Adversary (AA) Archetype (Systemic Structure)
      • Drifting Goals (DG) Archetype (Systemic Structure)
      • Escalation (Esc) Archetype (Systemic Structure)
      • Fixes That Backfire Archetype (FtB) Systemic Structure
      • Growth and Underinvestments (G&U) Archetype (Systemic Structure)
      • Limits to Growth (LtG) Archetype (Systemic Structure)
      • Shifting the Burden (StB) Archetype (Systemic Structure)
      • Success to the Successful (StS) Archetype (Systemic Structure)
      • Tragedy of the Commons (ToC) Archetype (Systemic Structure)
  • Chapter 4: Understanding Dynamic Complexity
    • Mental Models – Understanding Our System
      • Tracing the Lineage of Mental Models
      • What led Plato and Kanto to Their Ideas?
      • Reaction Against Behaviorism
      • What led Craik to His Ideas?
      • What led Argyris and Schön to Their Ideas?
      • What led Senge to Develop His Ideas on The Discipline of Mental Models
      • Are the Unconscious Stories We Tell Ourselves The Same As The Stories We Hide or Mask from Others?
      • #1: Testing the Limits of Each Thinking by Situation Series: Individual – Self-doubt and Imposter Syndrome
      • #2: Testing the Limits of Each Thinking by Situation Series: Individual – Repeated Career Dissatisfaction Syndrome
      • #3: Testing the Limits of Each Thinking by Situation Series: Siblings – Same Gender
      • #4: Testing the Limits of Each Thinking by Situation Series: Siblings – Different Gender
      • #5: Testing the Limits of Each Thinking by Situation Series: Parents & Child
      • #6: Testing the Limits of Each Thinking by Situation Series: Communities & Extended Families
      • #7: Testing the Limits of Each Thinking by Situation Series: Small-scale organizations
      • #8: Testing the Limits of Each Thinking by Situation Series: Large-scale organizations
      • #9: Testing the Limits of Each Thinking by Situation Series: Governments
      • #10: Testing the Limits of Each Thinking by Situation Series: Nations
      • #11: Testing the Limits of Each Thinking by Situation Series: Regions
      • #12: Testing the Limits of Each Thinking by Situation Series: Zero-Sum Assumption
      • #13: Testing the Limits of Each Thinking by Situation Series: Manipulation
      • Practicing Mentals Models – A Self Discipline
    • Team Learning – Seeing Our Systems
    • Personal Mastery – Envisioning Our Part in The System
      • Personal Mastery: The Most Misunderstood Discipline
      • Robert Fritz’s Core Concepts That Shape Senge’s View of Personal Mastery
      • Eastern Philosophy Insights That Shape Senge’s Personal Mastery Discipline
      • How to Navigate Creative Tension Without Collapse in Hardship
      • Vision is most essential in times of hardship – Nelson Mandela
      • Daily Practices to Navigate Creative Tension in Hardship
      • Navigating Creative Tension in Singleness & Fear of Intimacy
      • Navigating Creative Tension Without Collapse: For the Single, Long-Term Unemployed Entrepreneur
      • Navigating Creative Tension Without Collapse — As a Single Wealth Creator with Limited Means
      • Leading From Within: Daily Practices for Visionary Leadership in Times of Creative Tension – Climbing With Purpose – How to Rise in Your Career Without Leaving Others Behind
      • Becoming Who I Want to Be: Daily Practices for Teenagers Building Their Future
      • Your Practice Pathway: Personal Mastery Across the Five Disciplines
      • The Deep Resonance and Yet the Critical Distinction between Personal Mastery in Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline and Presencing in Otto Scharmer’s Theory U.
      • Daily Practice of Developing A Personal Vision Rooted In Purpose
      • Three Pathways of The Practice of Personal Mastery:
    • Shared Vision – Envisioning the Whole
  • Chapter 5: Dealing with Complexity – Solving the Problem
    • Healing Vicious / Stubborn Problems
    • National Strategic Planning Systemic Guide (NSPSG)
    • Indicators of Progress within Organizational Systems
    • Indicators of Progress with Natural Systems (/ Environment)
    • Indicators of Progress – Economic System
    • Indicators of Progress for a Nation
  • Chapter 6: Research Works- In-Progress of Sectoral / National / Regional / Global Systemic Relevance
    • Global Sustainable Development Goals
  • Chapter 7: Publications – The Systemic Thinking Columnist Articles
    • Global Systemic Data Organizing Body
    • National Systemic Strategy Development Programmes – A Reflection and Proposal for SoLs Around The Globe
      • HAMMER IN SEARCH OF STUBBORN NAILS – ISSUES THAT HAVE RESISTED OUR EFFORTS TO CHANGE THE COURSES OF THEIR DIRECTIONS
      • Formulating, Analyzing, Operationalizing Strategies
      • Community Speaks Series: Issues Spanning KSL1
        • When Communities Speak Unity – Korea
        • When the Community Speaks Population Size Changes
        • Ways Societies Can Be Organised or Self-Organise
          • Major Types of Socialist Thinking
          • What is The Optimal State of Each Societal Model That is Economically Practical?
          • What Does It Take For Each Social Organization To Succeed?
          • Southern Africa Development Scenarios
        • When the Community Speaks the Marriage Institution and Family
        • When The Community Speaks … Learning Beyond Education. Short Notes.
          • When the World Speaks … Africa & STEM
        • When the Community Speaks Global Education System Designed for Learning
        • When the Community Speaks Personal Career Choices & Personal Emotional Drives
        • When The Community Speaks Cracking the Botswana Productivity Code. Short Notes. Part I
        • When The Community Speaks Cracking the Botswana Productivity Code. Short Notes. Part II
        • When Matchsticks Meet Megawatts: Why STEM Matters in Regulation
        • When Community Speaks …. Transitioning from Hustling to Industry Requires More Than a New Dress Code—it Demands a New Way of Thinking.
        • When the Community Speaks … Gendered Violence
        • When the Community Speaks Crime
        • When the Community Speaks Corruption
        • When the Community Speaks Honest Media Reporting
        • Builders or Bystanders? Three Strategic Scenarios for Botswana’s STEM Future
      • Nature Speaks Series: Issues spanning KSL2
        • When Nature Speaks Eratic Weather Systems / Global Warming
          • What Nature Speaks Water Usage and Agriculture
        • When Nature Speaks Land Health
          • When Nature Speaks Plant Generation
            • National Agriculture Development Matrix
            • Comprehensive National Horticulture Production Strategy: From Farm to Fork to Export
          • When Nature Speaks Animal Generation
            • When Nature Speaks “wildlife”
              • When Nature Speaks … Wildlife. Be calm. Love an elephant. What everybody should know about these gentle giants.
              • Global Human-Elephant Conflict
            • When Nature Speaks … His-story of Cattle Production in Botswana
            • When Nature Speaks Land Health
        • When Nature Speaks Human Health
          • When Nature Speaks Communicable Diseases
          • When Nature Speaks Non-communicable Health Concerns
          • When Nature Speaks Rare Genetic Diseases
      • Economy Speaks Series: Issues Spanning KSL3
        • When The Economy Speaks Growing Economic Sectors
        • When Economy Speaks … The Global Diamond Market
        • When the Economy Speaks …. AU + AfCFTA Comparison with global regional economic cooperation platforms
        • When Economy Speaks … Regional Shared Production Planning – SADC
        • When The Economy Speaks Reversing National Unemployment Statistics
          • When The Economy Speaks ICT Graduate Unemployment Is Just the Tip of National Unemployment Iceberg
            • Addressing Persistent Unemployment in Botswana: A Systems Thinking Approach (Part 1)
            • Addressing Persistent Unemployment in Botswana: A Systems Thinking Approach (Part 2)
              • Reinforcing Behaviour of causal structure influencing unemployment
      • World Speak Series: Issues Spanning KSL4
        • When the World Speaks …. Governance BW
          • When the World Speaks … National Development
        • When the World Speaks … Superpowers
          • When the World Speaks China’s Path to Growth Part I
        • When The World Speaks Wars
          • When the World Speaks Wars – Japan
          • When the World Speaks Wars – Israel-Palestine Conflict
        • When the World Speaks The Global Village
  • Chapter 8: Learnings & Strategy Development Impact Study
  • News & Events on The Fifth Discipline
    • News & Events: SoL Global Forum 2025
  • Contact Us

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