Either they don’t know, don’t show, or don’t care about what’s going on in the hood.
Dough Boy
By Academy Fellow, Anthony Johnson.
This famous quote from Boyz N the Hood personifies America’s reality as it relates to the Coronavirus. The “Hood” is unfortunately feeling the brunt of the Coronavirus deadliness where in state after city after community the small number of people of […]
Composer, improviser, researcher and sound artist, Adam Pultz Melbye, used excerpts from Donella Meadow’s Leverage Points essay for one of his most recent musical creations. His podcast episode features his own unreleased work alongside spoken words by Silvia Andrade, and materials from the Academy’s Donella Meadows Project.
I am very grateful to the Donella Meadows Project for granting me permission to use […]
“Folks who do systems analysis have a great belief in “leverage points.” These are places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything.” – Donella Meadows
Following the publication of Profit For Life (2006) and Companies That Mimic Life (2016), former Board […]
This article, written by former Academy Board Member and co-Founder, Hal Hamilton, was first published at The Sustainable Food Lab.
Since I became a live-next-door grandfather, it has occurred to me that the path to personal mastery, common to both parenting and system leadership, is revealing. I notice the following approaches by both parents and leaders:
Make demands.
Figure out shared […]
By Anthony Johnson, Academy Fellow
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) strategies have emerged as powerful tools for school districts across the country in promoting and developing self-awareness, self-management, empathy, social skill and good decision making. The objective of these strategies is to promote “good learning” which Daniel Goleman (the founder of the Collaborative of Social Emotional Learning and co-author of The Triple Focus, […]
By Hal Hamilton and LeAnne Grillo.
System leadership grows from the use of tools and practices as we engage others in pursuit of positive change. After Donella Meadows wrote Limits to Growth from the work of a team, people began thinking of global challenges through the framework of feedback loops and the consequences of runaway use of resources. Peter Senge launched systems […]