Upcoming Mastery of Systems Leadership Info Sessions

In her book Thinking in Systems,22 Professor Meadows highlights the need to locate accountability in a complex adaptive system so as to optimize outcomes. In the United States’ health care sector, putting Meadows’s teaching into practice would mean identifying ways by which actors (for instance, hospitals) feel the impact of their actions on other

Mental flexibility—the willingness to redraw boundaries, to notice that a system has shifted into a new mode, to see how to redesign structure—is a necessity when you live in a world of flexible systems.

Without personal mastery, people are so steeped in the reactive mindset (“someone/something else is creating my problems”) that they are deeply threatened by the systems perspective.

In spite of what you majored in, or what the textbooks say, or what you think you’re an expert at, follow a system wherever it leads. It will be sure to lead across traditional disciplinary lines. To understand that system, you will have to be able to learn from—while not being limited by—economists and chemists and psychologists and theologians. Y