You people are different. You ask different kinds of questions. You see things I don’t see. Somehow you come at the world in a different way. How? Why? anecdote shared by Danilla Meadows
Because of feedback delays within complex systems, by the time a problem becomes apparent it may be unnecessarily difficult to solve. A stitch in time saves nine.
Practices of a Systems Thinker
* Thinking of the “big picture”
* Observe short-term and long-term consequences
* Recognizing the dynamic, complex, and interdependent nature of systems
* Exploring the seen and unseen consequences
* "Playing" with system inputs and outputs via thought experiments or simulations
* Remembering that we are all part of the systems in which we function, and that we each influence those systems even as we are being influenced by them