Leadership from a Systems Perspective

I thought that this was a great quote on leadership from a system’s perspective:

“From a systems point of view leadership is crucial because the most effective way you can intervene in a system is to shift its goals. You don’t need to fire everyone, or replace all the machinery, or spend more money, or even make new laws – if you can just change the goals of the feedback loops. Then all the old people, machinery, money, and laws will start serving new functions, falling into new configurations, behaving in new ways, and producing new results.” – Donella H. Meadows – The Question Of Leadership

Reading this reminded me of the very interesting ChangeThis manifesto by Chetan Dhruve “Why Your Boss is Programmed to be a Dictator“, which was written from a systems perspective.

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