Seeing the Whole While Acting on the Parts

Organizations often focus on solving local problems—improving a department, fixing a process, or optimizing a single function. But what if those local improvements unintentionally weaken the whole system?

In this episode, we explore Peter Senge and Sterman's 1992 article "Act Locally, Think Globally... and Then Act Globally," Published in the European Journal of Operational Research, where he argues that lasting organizational learning requires more than local optimization. It requires seeing the larger system, understanding how local actions create global consequences, and building organizations that can learn across boundaries.

You can find the full article at the link below:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/037722179290011W