Tools for Systems Thinkers: The 6 Fundamental Concepts of Systems Thinking
A systems approach helps shift us from formulaic, mechanical responses to issues to fluid responses that see the interconnected and constantly changing elements that keep emerging.
Sharon Salzberg • Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World
Conceptualization: the capacity to see larger systems and forces at play and to construct public, testable ways of expressing these views.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
The practice of systems thinking starts with understanding a simple concept called “feedback” that shows how actions can reinforce or counteract (balance) each other. It builds to learning to recognize types of “structures” that recur again and again:
Peter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
systems thinking has arisen in response to our dawning realization of interconnectedness, our discovery that working with things in isolation is increasingly ineffective and even counterproductive.
Medium • The Ecosystem Hypothesis
The Systems Thinker – A Lifetime of Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker
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Systems thinking, in a sense, presents the fundamental principle of life — that everything in this world is interconnected; the actors affect each other directly or indirectly. As they say, a “butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil could set off a tornado in Texas.”
Zoe McKey • Think In Systems: The Theory and Practice of Strategic Planning, Problem Solving, and Creating Lasting Results - Complexity Made Simple
A change to one element affects the entire system. From this vantage point, interdependence is seen as the very fabric of every experience. A systems approach tends to focus on the relationships, structures, and feedback loops that make up the whole. That way we are constantly learning, seeing the problem as an ever-changing process.