Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's ToolkitSystems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit explores the application of systems ideas to investigate, evaluate, and intervene in complex and messy situations. The text serves as a field guide, with each chapter representing a method for describing and analyzing; learning about; or changing and managing a challenge or set of problems. The book is the first to cover in detail such a wide range of methods from so many different parts of the systems field. The book's Introduction gives an overview of systems thinking, its origins, and its major subfields. In addition, the introductory text to each of the book's three parts provides background information on the selected methods. Systems Concepts in Action may serve as a workbook, offering a selection of tools that readers can use immediately. The approaches presented can also be investigated more profoundly, using the recommended readings provided. While these methods are not intended to serve as "recipes," they do serve as a menu of options from which to choose. Readers are invited to combine these instruments in a creative manner in order to assemble a mix that is appropriate for their own strategic needs. |
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... individual “begging” for individual gain and a collective means of handling the eccentricities of the About Systems, Thinking Systemically, and Being Systemic 20.
... individual trade-offs up to a family, group, or organizational level, and it is no wonder that situations do not always behave in the way we expect. Thinking systemically about perspectives will help us make sense of those individual ...
... individual level is plausible and valid. For complicated and complex systems, the notion of “I am accountable to ... Individual accountability makes it possible to blame someone for undesired consequences, even though in many cases it is ...
... individual events and to reach a higher—one might say more systemic—level of understanding, by mapping the structure that is responsible for producing recurring patterns of events over time. CLDs are based on the concept of “feedback ...
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