Systems Mapping Using Physical Objects
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Solving Small Problems With Systems Thinking— A Real-Life Walk Through
“Systems Thinking” sounds like such a grandiose thing, requiring complicated tools designed to solve complicated problems. But what if there is more (…
Systems Thinking version 4.0
Prominent scholars in the field accept that the history and development of systems thinking has occurred in "waves" as originated by Flood, Jackson, a…
DSRP Is All Around Us: Color
Like all things, color is chock-full of DSRP patterns. Presented with the most common colors most of us can (unless colorblind) identify them on the s…
Embrace And/Both Logic
This post is an excerpt from Chapter 7 of Systems Thinking Made Simple. A New Kind Of Logic There is always an underlying logic implicit in both infor…
Leapfrog Leaders
"Leapfrog Leaders" written by Drs. Derek Cabrera, Laura Cabrera and Hise Gibson applies existing knowledge about the elements of systems thinking to a…
Getting Reality Right
Excerpt from the book: Systems Thinking Made Simple, Chapter 2 The British mathematician George E.P. Box said, "All mental models are wrong; the pract…
Systems Thinking Is A Complex Adaptive System (CAS)Picture of Derek & Laura Cabrera
Our post today is about complex adaptive systems (CAS), in memory of English mathematician and systems thinker John Conway who died on April 11, 2020 …
Slider: De-dupe-ing
The term cognitive slider was coined by Derek Cabrera to communicate “a relatively small, nourishing or ‘meaty’ mental model” for use in increasing on…