Systems thinking mirrors ecological thinking - looking at the context for problems and situations, treating them as emergent rather than isolated. It involves a sensitivity to wholes that is missing in analytical thinking
Real learning forces the adoption of new categories, new methods. Through new experiences we can test our assumptions and really learn - even about things that don't neatly fit into our previous assumptions. Real learning doesn't conform to our thinking - it challenges it.
Argues that neoconservative policy helped get us to the place where we need a bailout and that Keynes was the first to explain the economy as a system.
About a century ago, businesses were forced to make unprecedented investments or go out of business. Today, businesses will have to make similar investments in intellectual capital.
Here's a paradox that you can turn into cash by betting against friends. The Monty Hall Paradox works against your intuition, intuition that can be changed only through experience. Keys to succeeding at this are challenging what you know, collecting data rather than looking at a single event, and looking at and for relationships.
What analysis did for the industrial revolution, systems thinking will do for the next economy. Ron Davison narrates the impact of a change in thinking on society and production.
An overview of the coming transformation of the modern corporation. The West has progressed through agricultural, industrial, and information economies. This evolution isn't done. Already we're entering the entrepreneurial economy.
