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Systems Thinking

Only by taking a systems view and seeing the connections can we avoid the dangers of silo mentality and organisational myopia.

Content includes:

1. Tools to see connections
2. Emergence and the power of small rules
3. Eight laws of living systems
4. Emergence
5. The sweet spot for doing business.

Why this is important

Most of us are ill-equipped to see the whole picture. Our education and careers have encouraged us to cut problems up; further more our departmental, silo-like organisational structures make it almost impossible to take other than local, parochial actions.

Without systems thinking managers are constantly ‘fixing’ symptoms, biases and limited perspectives.

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For an example of a systems map...

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