Food Systems, Climate Systems, Laundry Systems: The Time for Systems Literacy Is Now! - The Systems Thinker
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Food Systems, Climate Systems, Laundry Systems: The Time for Systems Literacy Is Now! - The Systems Thinker
Systems thinking enables us to engage complex problems more effectively, steering us away from short-sighted solutions that may work in the short-term but ultimately backfire and make things worse in the long run.
Ryan Mohr • Making systems more approachable
Adam Zeiner added
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
Keely Adler and added
Systems thinking requires a shift in mindset, away from linear to circular. The fundamental principle of this shift is that everything is interconnected. We talk about interconnectedness not in a spiritual way, but in a biological sciences way.
Leyla Acaroglu • Tools for Systems Thinkers: The 6 Fundamental Concepts of Systems Thinking
systems thinking’. A system is a combination of things that form a whole. Immediately, we can distinguish a ‘hard system’ of physical, material objects, such as a bridge or a computer, from a ‘soft system’ involving people. Hard systems are the subject of traditional physical science. They comprise objects as tools that all have a life cycle – they
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Living successfully in a world of systems requires more of us than our ability to calculate. It requires our full humanity—our rationality, our ability to sort out truth from falsehood, our intuition, our compassion, our vision, and our morality.2
Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller
The biggest and most-discussed problems of our era — the current pandemic, climate change, political and ideological polarization, racial and income inequality, global supply chains, among others — can only be understood and engaged with as systems of interrelated phenomena and actions.
Medium • The Ecosystem Hypothesis
Keely Adler added
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
Think In Systems: The Theory and Practice of Strategic Planning, Problem Solving, and Creating Lasting Results - Complexity Made Simple
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