Systems Thinking : Intelligence in Action

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Perspectives in Business Culture ; 2

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Systems Thinking; Intelligence in Action; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: The Kingdom of Circular Processes: The Logical Foundations of Systems Thinking; 1.1 Looking Without ``Seeing´´ and Seeing Without ``Looking´´: The Role of Models of Intelligence; 1.2 Seeing the Trees and the Forest: Zooming in on a World of Parts and Wholes; 1.3 Seeing the Dance of the Starry Sky: The Importance of Variables and Variations; 1.4 The ``Why´´ Game: Searching for the Causal Chains; 1.5 The Serpent Bites Its Tail: Closed Causal Chains - Loops

1.6 Everything Comes Around Again to Itself: Systems and Their External and Internal Boundaries1.7 The Memory of a Snowball: The Systems of Systems Thinking; 1.8 ``Seeing the Impossible´´ or ``the Impossibility of Seeing´´: Five Obstacles to Systems Thinking; 1.9 The Fifth Discipline: And the Other Four?; 1.9.1 First Discipline: Personal Mastery; 1.9.2 Second Discipline: Mental Models; 1.9.3 Third Discipline: Building Shared Vision; 1.9.4 Fourth Discipline: Team-learning; 1.9.5 Fifth Discipline: Systems Thinking; 1.9.6 Is a Sixth Discipline Possible? Control Thinking

Appendix 1.1 Skills and Obstacles for the Spread of Systems ThinkingThe Seven Skills of the Systems Thinker; Consider the Dynamics; Think in Internal Causal Terms; Think in Terms of a ``Forest´´; Think in Operational Terms; Think in Terms of Loops; Think in Quantitative Terms; Think in Scientific Terms; The Seven Obstacles to Systems Thinking; The Fundamental Impediments; The Situational Impediments; Three Areas to Facilitate the Adoption of Systems Thinking; Chapter 2: The Arrow That Constructs the World: The Causal Loop Diagrams Technique

2.1 Give Me an Arrow and I Will Construct the World: Technique for the Construction of Systems Models of the ``World´´2.2 All Things Vary: Variables and Causal Relationships; 2.3 Giving a ``Direction´´ to Change: Reinforcing [R] and Balancing [B] Loops; 2.4 Let Us Chain Together the World: Constructing Causal-Loop-Diagrams for Every System; 2.5 Si vis pacem para bellum: The Analysis of Processes and Analytical CLDs; 2.6 Quieta non movere, mota quietare! Stability in Perpetual Motion

2.7 He Who Plants Dates Does Not Eat Them: Decision-making and Control Systems - Impulses, Responses and Delays2.8 The Numbers Game? Attempts at Numerical Simulation; 2.9 Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? System Dynamics; 2.10 Stocks and Flows? How the System Alters Its States; 2.11 Models of Models: Translation Examples; 2.12 The Map Is Not the Territory It Represents: The Problem with Modelling in Systems Thinking; Appendix 2.1 Causal Loop Diagrams for Everyone; Appendix 2.2 Escalation of Arms in Richardson´s Model; Appendix 2.3 Representation of an Economic System

Appendix 2.4 Malthusian Dynamics

10.1007/978-88-470-2565-3 [DOI]

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