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Barry Oshry is a pioneer in the field of human systems thinking. His life’s work has been to empower individuals and organizations by transforming system-blindness into system-sight. The educational programs he has developed include The Power Lab, the Organization Workshop on Creating Partnership, and the When Cultures Meet Workshop. In 2013 he launched The Worldwide Week of Partnership, during which Power+Systems trainers across the globe conduct pro bono partnership events for educational, charitable, advocacy, and service organizations in their local communities. In 2015 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Organization Development Network. Barry is the author of The Systems Letter, Seeing Systems, Leading Systems, In the Middle, The Possibilities of Organization, and Context, Context, Context. He is also a playwright whose stage productions include “What a Way to Make a Living,” “Hierarchy,” “Power Play,” and “Peace.”

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Encounters with “The Other”: A History and Possibilities

By Barry Oshry
September 27, 2018
in :  Cross Cultural Analyses
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Can "Encounter" Fundamentally Transform How We See and Interact with “The Other”?

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Take a Look at Yourself: The Self in System Sensitizer

By Barry Oshry
November 26, 2012
in :  Surveys & Questionnaires, Transformation
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Progress in any system sometimes depends on uncharacteristic action. But people, leaders, managers and workers have preferred patterns of behavior, things they like to do, things they avoid, and things they do because they are required by the rules of the game, the systemic imperatives.

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What Would Homo Systemicus Do? The Wisdom Of Viewing Our World Through An Organic Systems Lens

By Barry Oshry
July 9, 2012
in :  Internal Politics, Leadership, Organizational Theory
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In this article the author explores the wisdom that comes from accepting our nature as systems creatures, and from viewing our human interactions through the lens of an organic systems perspective.

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