Tag: Systems Thinking
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“Positive” Systems Archetypes
Many readers of The Systems Thinker are familiar with the systems archetypes developed in the mid- 1980s based on the work of Jay Forrester,…
Guidelines for Daily Systems Thinking Practice
Individual Practice Becoming a seasoned systems thinker starts with a strong commitment to developing your own awarenesses and skills. Ask Different Questions. Systems thinking offers…
Using the ‘Back of a Napkin’ to Assess Systems Equilibrium and Guide Change
In this information-rich and knowledge-based economy, new models, methods, and tools proliferate more rapidly than spam in our email inboxes. Yet there is one…
Leading in a Hyper-Connected Society
We live in a society today in which conventional wisdom is not only no longer conventional, but apparently not so wise either. Business schools…
Systems Thinking: The Bigger Picture
As a professional systems thinker and system dynamicist, I sometimes wonder why more people don’t see value in simulation models for learning and insight.
Systems Thinking as a Language
Language has a subtle, yet powerful effect on the way we view the world. English, like most other Western languages, is linear—its basic sentence…
Systems Archetypes as Dynamic Theories
Most people are familiar with the Sufi tale of the four blind men, each of whom is attempting (unsuccessfully) to describe what an elephant…
Predicting Behavior Using Systems Archetypes
The adage “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” captures an old belief that something “known” is more valuable than…
Using Systems Archetypes as Different “Lenses”
So, you’ve chosen a problem you want to study using systems thinking tools. You gather together some co-workers, round up some flipchart paper and…
How Is This Similar to That?
In a handful of classrooms across the country, middle and high school students are learning about the dynamics of systems by experimenting with a…