It was Muhammad Yunus who created the Grameen Bank as a way to provide finance to the poor of Bangladesh. He wrote in 2007 The concept of microcredit did not exist before I initiated Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, which basically recognized that credit without… Read More »Microfinance and Entrepreneurship – Roshaneh Zafar’s story
These diagrams are an important way to visualize and understand how a system of different elements is working together. As Donella Meadows wrote in Thinking in Systems,”If you understand the dynamics (behavior over time) of stocks and flows, you understand a good deal about the… Read More »Stock and Flow Diagramming
Leading the learning organization Peter Senge argues that learning organizations require a new view of leadership. In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations were people continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve… Read More »Leading the Learning Organisation – more from Peter Senge
I first discovered Systems Thinking in Peter Senge’s book “The Fifth Discipline”, when I was studying for my Masters in Adult Education. It’s one of the most thumbed books on my bookshelf! Peter Senge and the learning organization. Peter Senge’s vision of a learning organization is… Read More »Systems Thinking