By Piero Mella
The middle trust underlying this ebook is that the main helpful and potent versions to reinforce our intelligence are method ones, constructed following the common sense of structures pondering. Such versions can discover complexity, dynamics, and alter, and it's the author’s view that intelligence relies on the power to build versions of this nature. The ebook is designed to permit the reader not just to procure basic details on platforms considering yet exceptionally to progressively examine the common sense and strategies that make this fashion of considering an device for the advance of intelligence. so as to relief the educational and perform of the platforms considering self-discipline, the writer has deserted a inflexible formal language for a extra discursive type. He writes within the first individual, with an considerable variety of citations and important analyses, and with out ever giving in to the temptation to take advantage of formal mathematics.
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Systems thinking is the art of “seeing” the world in this relative sense in order to understand and control it. Can we be content to see the trees? Doesn’t Systems Thinking oblige us to consider them as a whole, in turn composed of more minute parts? And should we 24 1 The Kingdom of Circular Processes: The Logical Foundations of Systems Thinking be content to see the forest? Isn’t this also part of a group of larger environmental variables? In fact, the FIRST RULE of Systems Thinking obliges us to zoom inside a system – thereby identifying increasingly smaller subsystems – as well as outside a system, to identify ever larger super systems.
The Situational Impediments 5 – The first situational impediment to the assimilation of Systems Thinking is the lack of technical expertise. Until we free ourselves of our math anxiety and technological phobias, Systems Thinking will largely remain on the shelf. IMPEDIMENT 6 – People resist Systems Thinking because it can be threatening, and in various ways. People who rely on a monopoly of information, specific technical expertise, or well-defined turf boundaries to sustain their sense of personal power will, as a result, find Systems Thinking threatening.
Secondly, you must avoid observing “objects” (unless you want to express aesthetic opinions or describe them for some purpose) and instead identify variables in/among those objects. For Systems Thinking the world is not made up of “objects” but of variables whose dynamics we must be able to determine over a significant time period. 7 The Memory of a Snowball: The Systems of Systems Thinking 25 FIRST RULE “See the trees and the forest” or: zoom in and out FIFTH RULE “Everything comes around again to itself ”, or: identify the system’s boundaries FOURTH RULE “The serpent bites its tail”, or: identify the loops among the variables (circular relationships) SECOND RULE “See the dance of the starry sky” or: always observe the variables THIRD RULE “The why game”, or: seek out cause/effect relationships (linear relationships) Fig.