All too often managers and CEOs make the same mistake. They try to solve a problem by looking at the root cause. Inevitably this leads to a blame game - turning meetings into a whodunit quest. But it’s a game without winners, says Marijke Spanjersberg. She teaches system thinking and is the right hand and sparring partner of many CEOs - including our very own Wendy van Ierschot. “We humans are not at all linear. Our behavior is not based on cause and effect, as we like to think. So we need to look at what goes wrong in the system.”

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