Systems Thinking – the Missing Piece of the Puzzle
Systems Thinking is essentially another way to say “Look at the complete picture.” Any given topic, issue, or event has multiple inputs and outputs that influence its outcome, so our ability to grasp the big picture of the many challenges we face in the world today is paramount for us to understand and deal with them in an effective manner. You can see different parts intersecting, and you can make the connections to the overall whole. That’s what systems thinking is: seeing the interconnection among the small pieces and then perceiving how they create the big picture.
January 7, 2014