Peter Senge: "Systems Thinking for a Better World" - Aalto Systems Forum 2014

Systems Thinking.

Systems Thinking.

Peter Senge has written, “Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns of dynamic relationships rather than static ‘snapshots’ … Systems thinking is a sensibility—for the subtle interconnectedness that gives living systems their unique character.”

vision without systems thinking ends up painting lovely pictures of the future with no deep understanding of the forces that must be mastered to move from here to there.

vision without systems thinking ends up painting lovely pictures of the future with no deep understanding of the forces that must be mastered to move from here to there.

The essence of the discipline of systems thinking lies in a shift of mind: seeing interrelationships rather than linear cause-effect chains, and seeing processes of change rather than snapshots

The essence of the discipline of systems thinking lies in a shift of mind: seeing interrelationships rather than linear cause-effect chains, and seeing processes of change rather than snapshots

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