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The Complete Guide to Systems Thinking and Learning
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The Complete Guide to Systems Thinking and Learning

by Stephen G. Haines
January 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
400 pages
12h 18m
English
HRD Press
Content preview from The Complete Guide to Systems Thinking and Learning
C
HAPTER
I
I
NTRODUCTION TO
S
YSTEMS
T
HINKING
SM
AND
L
EARNING
•Overview
Systems Concept #1: Seven Levels of Living (Open) Systems
Systems Concept #2: Twelve Laws of Natural Systems (Standard Systems Dynamics)
Systems Concept #3: A-B-C-D Systems Model
Systems Concept #4: Changing Systems (The Natural Cycles of Life and Change)
Some Guiding Principles of the Systems Age
What Is Learning? and The Learning Organization
THINKING IS HARD WORK
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if people were only willing to think.
The trouble is that people often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think,
because thinking is such hard work. ...
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