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Posted by DGPacker@aol.com Some time ago, Jim Hines developed a pretty full set of achetype models and some exercises using them. We used these in management sessions and found the ability to simulate to be very captivating to participants. It built on the insights gained from causal loops alone as ...

The Jim Hines/Bill Braun notes caused me to recall a time long, long, ago (when computers were quite new) when I went to a lecture by the mathematician Norbert Weiner at MIT. One thing he talked about was the enormous amount of money being wasted on unsuccessfully developing a computer program for l...

Seems to me that this is not a dynamic behavior that results from structure, but rather a higher level concept well articulated by Demming and at the core of why a systemic view is so powerful. It is simply that optimizing components will not oprimize the system. The interesting corollary is that it...

I cant resist this, which relates to modeling the "system" (rather than issues). Theres a Stephen Wright segment in which he says "I spent all last summer drawing a map of the United States--with a scale of 1 inch to 1 inch. It was alot of fun, but a real problem to fold!" Modeli...