Hungry?  Eat…

• Niels Teunis invites us to kill the mission statement and find three words instead.
• Dervala Hanley tweets the death of the MBA.
• Ria Baeck republishes Fancis Moore Lappe on wyas systems can redesign food systems
• Johnnie Moore blogging Dave Snowden blogging some interesting peer learning in the hotel industry.
• Aftab Erfan blogs about a Deep Democracy event in South Africa.
• Peggy Holman is blogging her new book on Patterns of Change and looking for comments
• Henry Mintzberg on the failure of management training

A light week of blogging as I have been in a deep Art of Hosting, but here are some things that grabbed my eye this week from the newsfeeds in my life:

• Nancy White on why Sharepoint is NOT the solution you’ve been looking for (and I agree).
• Ria Baeck on Collective sourcing for living wholeness.  

Juicy:

• Jack Martin Leith on the generations of innovation
• Dan Oestrich on reflective leadership in lean times
• Dave Pollard on Christopher Allen’s musings on group size
• Geoff Brown works through Everything’s an Offer
• Crooked Timber on power and deliberation
• Common Ground explains why some contracts honoured and others are not.

Hello Webby world…I have a request, especially of you systems thinkers out there.

I’m working on a project with a network of Native public radio stations in the United States to assess the unique impacts that these stations make in their communities.   One of the things we would like to do with the stations is to provide them with tools to work with the feedback they get from the community and identify key things that make sense to work on.

I’m thinking that some systems thinking tools would be a useful contribution to the work here, and I’m looking for any tools that people use to work strategically with environmental scans to identify leverage points and possibilities to enhance the impact of work a radio station might do. The easier the tool is to use, the better.

So anything out there to point me towards?   I’ll cruise through the Fifth Discipline books but I’m wondering what you might have discovered on the web.   References and ideas in the comments please, soe everyone canbenefit from this inquiry.

Thanks in advance.

Links that made me think this week.

• Holger Nauheimer release the newest version of the Change Management Toolbook
• Peter Rawsthorne blogs a great BBC documentary on what a post-fossil fuel farm might look like
• Siona van Dijk finds Paul Hawken naming the people I play with.
• Jean Sebastien Bouchard turns me on to art.