Tools for Systems Thinkers: The 6 Fundamental Concepts of Systems Thinking

Systems thinkers see the world as a collection of stocks along with the mechanisms for regulating the levels in the stocks by manipulating flows. That means system thinkers see the world as a collection of “feedback processes.”

But links never exist in isolation. They always comprise a circle of causality, a feedback “loop,” in which every element is both “cause” and “effect”—influenced by some, and influencing others, so that every one of its effects, sooner or later, comes back to roost.