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Chapter 7 - Living in a World of Systems (Stay Humble - Stay a Learner…
Chapter 7 - Living in a World of Systems
Get the Beat of the System
Put your ear to the ground and listen
Use all your sense and trust them
Don't just make assumptions
Pay Attention to the patterns
Expose Your Mental Models to the Light of Day
Test your Models
Don't be shy
Show all
It makes you accountable
Honor, Respect, and Distribute Information
Information can hold a system together and how delayed, biased, scattered, or missing info can make feedback loops malfunction
Consistent with systems
Articulation of Reality is More Primordial than Strategy Structure or Culture
Use Language with Care and Enrich It with Systems Concepts
Avoid language pollution
Expand language to talk about complexity
Learn new terms
Pay Attention to What Is Important Not Just What Is Quantifiable
Quality vs. Quantity
Define and Measure
Make Feedback Policies for Feedback Systems
Difficult to impose a static policy on a dynamic, self adjusting feedback system
Best Policies contain Feedback and Meta-Feedback Loops
Design learning into a process
Go for the Good of the Whole
Hierarchies exist to serve the bottom layers, not the top
Aim to enhance the whole system
Resilience
Sustainablity
Diversity
Stability
Growth
Listen to the Wisdom of the System
Aid and encourage the forces and structures that help the system runs itself
Consider the value of the system before changing
Locate Responsibility in the System
Pay attention to trigger events
Analysis
Design
Stay Humble - Stay a Learner
Learn
Let ego get bruised
Be open
Trail and Error
Learn fro your mistakes
Celebrate Complexity
Universe is messy
look for curves not straight lines
Dynamic - turbulent
Expand Time Horizons
Dont limit to short term gain
Look beyond the short term and towards long term goals
Defy the Disciplines
See the whole system
Don't be limited to experts
Follow systems
Expand the Boundary of Caring
Care and Empathise
Horizons Thought
Moral and practical rules the same
Don't Erode the Goals of Goodness
Don't weigh the bad news more than the good
Keep Standards Absolute