Book description
Welcome to the systems age, where software professionals are no longer building software&emdash;we're building systems of software. Change is continuously deployed across software ecosystems coordinated by responsive infrastructure.
In this world of increasing relational complexity, we need to think differently. Many of our challenges are systemic. This book shows you how systems thinking can guide you through the complexity of modern systems. Rather than relying on traditional reductionistic approaches, author Diana Montalion shows you how to expand your skill set so we can think, communicate, and act as healthy systems.
Systems thinking is a practice that improves your effectiveness and enables you to lead impactful change. Through a series of practices and real-world scenarios, you'll learn to shift your perspective in order to design, develop, and deliver better outcomes.
You'll learn:
- How linear thinking limits your ability to solve system challenges
- Common obstacles to systems thinking and how to move past them
- New skills and practices that will transform how you think, learn, and lead
- Methods for thinking well with others and creating sound recommendations
- How to measure success in the midst of complexity and uncertainty
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Preface
- I. A System of Thinking
- 1. What Is Systems Thinking?
- 2. Crafting Conceptual Integrity
- 3. Shifting Your Perspective
- II. You Are a System of Thinking
- 4. Self-Awareness as a Foundational Skill
- 5. Replace Reacting with Responding
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6. A System of Learning
- A Learning-Driven Career
- Practice 1: What Motivates You?
- Designing Your Learning Activities
- Practice 2: Describe Your Activities
- Designing Your Learning Outcomes
- Practice 3: Learning Outcomes
- Design Feedback Loops
- Practice 4: Who Can Help Me?
- One Day at a Time, Forever
- MAGO: Boundless Learning Opportunities
- Support for Your Practice: It’s All Interrelated
- III. We Are a System of Thinking
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7. Collective Systemic Reasoning
- What Is Systemic Reasoning?
- Your Practice: Create a Proposition
- Systemic Reasoning Is a Method of Inquiry
- Systemic Reasoning Is a Worthwhile Investment
- Systemic Reasoning Structures (and Frames) Ambiguity
- The Top-Down Elaboration
- Strengthening the Reasons
- Your Practice: Strengthen Your Reasons
- MAGO’s Proposition
- Support for Your Practice: The Iceberg Model
- 8. Designing Feedback Loops
- 9. Pattern Thinking
- IV. Designing a System of Thinking
- 10. Modeling, Together
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11. Systems Leadership
- The Paradigm We Work In
- Characteristics of Systems Leadership
- Learning Leadership
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MAGO: Systems Leadership
- Understand the Pain
- Identify the System’s Highest-Value Purpose
- Model the Current System
- Create a Shared Space for Thinking Together
- Articulate and Justify the Core Problem(s)
- Recommend Pathways Toward Improving the Systems
- Design a System of Communication and Encourage Thinking Well Together
- Take Excellent Care of Yourself
- Encourage Systems Thinking
- Your Practice: A Systems Leadership Cohort
- 12. Redefining Success
- Further Resources
- Glossary
- Index
- About the Author
Product information
- Title: Learning Systems Thinking
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2024
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781098151331
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