Peter Gomez, University of St. Gallen Gilbert Spiderman Those were the days when Gilbert Probst presented his innumerable lectures on systems thinking to executives wearing a T-shirt showing a spidernet; the serious and respected professor impersonating the famous Spiderman? Far from it Systems thinking translated in German means Vernetztes Denken, in clumsy English Thinking in Networks just like the spiderweb. A more precise term would be Thinking in Circles, but Gilbert was always looking for good effects and this with great success, the executives loved it. Gilbert and myself were a good...