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DANCING WITH
SYSTEMS
I value solving problems using computer-aided modeling and systems thinking.
Modeling complex systems involving living things can begin with reductionistic
analysis, but our goal is a wholistic synthesis, which will require
understanding properties that emerge in passing from lower to higher levels of
organization. Modeling social systems should involve “dancing”: humbly
gathering data and learning, being mentally flexible, valuing information, being
alert to how the system creates its behavior, and to feedback. Do all this--not
to arrogantly control or predict the future--but to design a system that creates
a desired future that we envision. Design mechanisms / policies that change with
the state of the system. Factor in values, respect what’s important, not just
quantifiable. Expand time and thought horizons, and the boundary of caring. Go
for the good of the whole.
Related Words, Beliefs, Background -- 36 entries
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More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #13: Dancing With
Systems |
|
Systems Thinking
(from online encyclopedia) |
| Systems
Theory (from online encyclopedia) |
| Systems
Ecology (from online encyclopedia) |
| Complexity
Theory (from online encyclopedia) |
| "Dancing
With Systems", article by Donella Meadows |
| The
Five Disciplines of Organizational Learning (from The Dance of
Change, by Peter Senge, etal) |
| Systems
Thinking -- An Operational Perspective of the Universe |
| The
Systems Thinker Newsletter |
| Systems
Thinking (from Thinking.net) |
| The
MIT Integrated Global System Model |
| System
Dynamics Example (illustrating a six step approach) |
| Links
to Systems-Oriented Thinking Websites |
| A
Primer on Systems Thinking and Organizational Learning |
| Applied
Systems Thinking (a look at thinking tools from a systems view) |
| System
Dynamics: A Learning & Problem Solving Approach to Development Policy,
by Khalid Saeed |
| Feedback,
by Piotr Golec ( from Economics Web Institute) |
| Dynamical
Systems (from online encyclopedia) |
| Emergence
/ Emergent Properties (from online encyclopedia) |
| Environmental
Impact Assessment (from online encyclopedia) |
| 12
Leverage Points to Intervene in a System (from online encyclopedia,
reports on Donella Meadows' work) |
| The
Fifth Discipline (from online encyclopedia about Peter Senge's work) |
| A
Summary of the Principles of Hierarchy Theory (hierarchy theory is
"a dialect of general systems theory") |
| Ackoff
Center for the Advancement of Systems Approaches |
| International
Society for the Systems Sciences |
| Global
Vision: Communicating Sustainability (about cybernetics pioneer
Gregory Bateson and cybernetic wisdom) |
| "The
Art of Simplexity," by Jeffrey Kluger (excerpt from his Simplexity
book, in Time June 23, 2008) |
|
Bowen Family
Systems Theory (applies systems thinking to describe and understand
family interactions) |
| Deep
Ethology: Levels of Organization ("Deep Ethology begins with a
behavioral pattern and seeks insight as to its causes and
consequences") |
|
The
Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently--And
Why, by Richard Nisbett
|
| quotes
from systems thinkers |
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Stephen P. Cook, with Donella H. Meadows.