The Fifth Discipline
I was personally struck by the uniformity of this thinking across time and discipline – in general, there are six different levels of escalating complexity, each interdependent, each with an important role.Important to note here that in my table, "Leverage" is not the same thing as "Time to complete something."
Clay Parker Jones • Pace Layers for Organization
systems thinking encompasses a large and fairly amorphous body of methods, tools, and principles, all oriented to looking at the interrelatedness of forces, and seeing them as part of a common process.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
Of course, their work is not over. It never is. Like a marriage, it requires ongoing attention and effort: maintaining a cohesive team, revisiting the answers to the six questions, overcommunicating and reinforcing them. But leaders in healthy organizations rarely lament having to invest time and energy in that effort. In fact, they almost always c
... See morePatrick M. Lencioni • The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business (J-B Lencioni Series)
A system generally goes on being itself, changing only slowly if at all, even with complete substitutions of its elements—as long as its interconnections and purposes remain intact.