by Edwin Merino | Sep 1, 2021 | Blog, Politics, Sustainability, System Thinking
“[Remember] the unadulterated political joy that millions of Americans felt 13 years ago when Barack Obama was elected the nation’s first Black president. They also feel like quaint snapshots of what seems now like another country,” CNN wrote as Obama turned...
by Edwin Merino | Aug 19, 2021 | Sustainability, System Thinking
We were at an intensive workshop on sustainability in 2013 ago with Sara Schley. She turned to me and said, ‘Eileen, they need you to commit to this’ I stood up and said, ‘Yes, we have to do this!’ That was a turning point for me and for the company. As seemingly...
by Edwin Merino | Apr 27, 2021 | News, Non classifié(e), System Thinking
Life, as we know it, is living through a “systems change.” To discover life as we want it, we need radical innovation that again, change the system… starting with each one of us. This is systems change from the inside out.We all had thoughts about the way the world...
by Edwin Merino | Apr 1, 2021 | Blog, Sustainability, System Thinking
Eileen Fisher’s culture was like none I’d ever witnessed in my quarter-century of working with corporations. The leaders, including VP of Manufacturing, VP of Sales, CFO, and more – the classic white male categories — were ALL women. And not just women. Not the...
by Edwin Merino | Mar 30, 2021 | Blog, Sustainability, System Thinking
The idea that problems are created and thus solved not in isolation, but by a system of players, who collectively have the wisdom to define, understand, and transform that system is what I refer to as the “System in the Room” approach. Let me explain. Imagine for...
by Sara | Oct 13, 2020 | Blog, System Thinking, World Cafe
The young woman from Yale asked me if I would moderate a panel. “I’d be honored to,” I said, “but I don’t do panels.” It’s a relief to have enough silver hairs, 25 years down this professional path to have the chutzpah to tell an Ivy League invitation what you will do...