Be a better thinker
Want to become a better Systems Thinker?
Practice these moves. You will start to see them everywhere. You’ll soon be amazed at all the things you’ve never noticed before!
SM5Q - Learn these first
- What am I choosing to include / exclude?
- How are these things organized into part/whole groupings?
- How are these things related?
- Do the relationships have parts?
- From what or whose perspective?
Top 10 moves
- Consider the Other
- Challenge the way parts are organized
- +1 -1 across levels of scale
- Distinguish the relationships (RD), or zoom in and add parts (RDS)
- Webs of Causality
- Challenge or validate the identities
- Take multiple perspectives
- Take conceptual perspectives
- Break perspectives into part-whole systems
- Mix and match