The Limits of Systems Thinking Internal Organization Development, Organization Design, and Change Management professionals are usually called in when things feel off, metrics stall, communication breaks down, and trust fades. Our default move? Reach for a model. Draw the system. Map the flows. Realign the inputs with the outcomes. That helps until it doesn’t. Because … Continued
Using real work for Team Building moved the people on the team;
from functional autonomy to interdependence;
from lone experts to a collaborative, focused team;
from impulsive to disciplined;
from the use of experience and instinct to the use of data;
from separate functions to systems thinking.
Because of this new knowledge of customers, systems, and steps for improvement, the company and people made improvements on problems that existed for decades. This progress and shared purpose led to excitement, more progress, and pride in their work … causing the morale problem to dissipate.