Wisconsin Water Thinkers Network Updates
A few updates on the Wisconsin Water Thinkers Network (WWTN): We have formed the leadership team to guide and promote the work of the WWTN moving forw…
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Part of our research mission is making the science of systems thinking available to everyone. The blog and the Cabrera Lab Podcast are where we share it. Views here are our own, not those of our partners or of Cornell University.
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ThinkWater Fellows Announced
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2016 USDA ThinkWater Fellows Announced New USDA-Funded Fellowship Applies Systems Thinking to Critical Water-Related Issues Itha…
ThinkWater Initiatives Featured in White House Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ThinkWater Initiatives Featured in White House Press Release Commitments to State-Based National Water Network and Online System…
ThinkQuiry Poster Series: Asking Metacognitive Questions
These four beautiful DSRP posters, or all 4 together, can be found here . Enjoy! "We wanted to get people asking different kinds of questions. Questio…
Dealing with the Devil in Design Thinking
Design Thinking is the latest exotic heuristic to show up in fishmongers' stalls. The old saying, "give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a ma…
7 Tricks to Making Better Distinctions
"The #1 place that folks mess up with systems thinking is distinction making. The repercussions can be quite serious." Our research lab has three focu…
Dr. Cabrera Does Podcast with John Ackley
Check out the podcast 013: Systems Thinking with Derek Cabrera of CRLab by John Ackley | Feb 10, 2016 | Podcast http://johnackley.com/13-2/
The MFS Universe of Systems Thinking
How does one find the patterns that connect such a vast world of systems models, approaches, frameworks, and theories? aka, a general theory of system…
Thinking v. Doing: How mental models are enacted
There's a common perception that thinking and doing are really different things. In the world of systems thinking this translates into debates about s…
Recognizing Relationships
Relationships are action-reaction. Interaction. Causes and effects. Feedback. Any two things or ideas can be related and any thing or idea could be a …
Organizing Systems
How we organize the parts of a system into a whole matters. Every whole has parts. Every part is a whole which has parts. And, every whole is a part o…
Perspective Taking
Change our perspective and the distinctions we make change, too. And of course, the part-whole organization and the relationships we see can change as…