Topic: System Dynamics
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Teaching Systemic Thinking: Educating the Next Generation of Business Leaders
Are we failing to adequately prepare our business leaders? Since an article in the Harvard Business Review on the topic more than 30 years…
Systems Thinking Concepts for Environmental Education
The goal of education for sustainability (EFS) is “to develop in young people and adults new knowledge and new ways of thinking needed to…
Taking a Systems View: A Reflection
Over many years of working with systems thinking as a student, manager, and consultant, I have developed an increasing respect for and fascination with…
Thinking in Circles About Obesity
TEAM TIP Although this article focuses specifically on the issue of weight management, some of the lessons are relevant for organizational issues; for…
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.
A Weighty Take on Stocks and Flows
When it comes to complex systems, things are seldom what they seem at first glance. Nowhere is this difficulty more evident than in the…
The Promise of Systems Thinking for Shifting Fundamental Dynamics
People in Guatemala—smart people—were working harder, hiring brighter people, raising more money, doing better projects, and getting improved results. And yet, what they sought…
The Conversational Power of Mapping Our Mental Models
Suppose that I bought a $34 ticket to hear a concert and, on the way to the event, I lost the ticket. I…
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…
The Next Great Frontier: Designing Managerial and Social Systems (Part 2)
A systems analysis of a company draws on knowledge about how structure and policy relate to behavior. Information comes primarily from interviewing people in…