Deborah Schaal is a systems thinker and coach who spent more than two decades inside complex organizations designing how work gets done. Lazy Systems blends systems thinking with lived experience and asks what it means to build structures that can hold a human pace. Learn more at https: //www.deborahschaal.com/.
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