What Is a System? What Is Systems Thinking?
Einstein famously said, "if you can’t explain something simply you don’t understand it." Of course, there's lot's of nuance in understanding systems t…
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Relationships (R) Are Not Enough!
There are a number of folks in the systems thinking world who are of the opinion that when discussing what is universal to all attempts at thinking sy…
Successful Applications of Systems Thinking: ThinkWater
A couple recent posts in online discussion groups have asked about positive outcomes that result from applying systems thinking (ST) to a variety of t…
Mental Models and DSRP
I'm motivated to write this blog by a recent discussion thread on Systems Thinking Daily about mental models. Of particular interest is how can we be …
When Simplicity Underlies Complexity
All images credits from STMS[^n] I mentioned in a previous [blog](http://stdaily.ghost.io/what-are-the-patterns-that-connect/) that systems thinking i…
Systems Thinking = Seeing Invisible Structure
Today I am writing about systems thinking, and how it can be equated with looking beyond the surface to see invisible structure. My library is chock f…
Top 10 Things Systems Thinkers Do
I can sum up what people want to know about systems thinking in two questions. First, they want to know what systems thinking is, which several previo…
What Are the Patterns That Connect?
I was recently asked a number of questions which I will reframe some for clarity. 1 Is systems thinking (ST) a thing? Or more specifically, is ST a si…
Wicked Problems
Image credit[^n] The term wicked problem is thrown around a lot in the systems thinking world. But what is a wicked problem? The following summary of …
Democratizing Systems Thinking
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." - Albert Einstein[1] In a previous post I cautioned newcomers to the fi…
System Dynamics ≠ Systems Thinking
Recent discussion prompted by the query "What is systems thinking?" has motivated me to write this blog, in part because there is no simple, widely ag…
Let's Drop the Dualities in Systems Thinking.
Image credit: M.C. Escher.1 There is an often cited, well-worn debate around *epistemology versus ontology* in systems thinking. It is in ways reminis…