Tools for Systems Thinkers: The 6 Fundamental Concepts of Systems Thinking
Theory: There are several theories at work within this process. I will list a few of them in category form, but not define the theories.
- Patters that connect
- Bertrand Russell’s Logical Levels
- Difference that makes a difference
- Multiple description
- Mutual learning and calibration (Symmathesy)
- Iterative multi-modal learning
- Autopoeisis (Varella and Maturana
Nora Bateson • Digging into Warm Data, The Warm Data Lab, and Certified Training.
THINK ABOUT THIS How to know whether you are looking at a system or just a bunch of stuff: A) Can you identify parts? … and B) Do the parts affect each other? … and C) Do the parts together produce an effect that is different from the effect of each part on its own? … and perhaps D) Does the effect, the behavior over time, persist in a variety of c
... See moreDonella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller
Systems thinkers see the world as a collection of stocks along with the mechanisms for regulating the levels in the stocks by manipulating flows.