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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
Chapter I—Introduction to Systems Thinking and Learning 7
the solutions into an explanation as a whole. Analysis tends to explain things by the
behavior of their parts, rather than by the whole!
Even today, analysis is probably the most common technique used in corporations.
Managers “cut their problems down to size,” reducing them to a set of solvable components
and then assembling them into one solution. It is still so much the norm that many
managers continue to see analyzing as synonymous with thinking. But what really is
needed is synthesis . . . holistic systems thinking.
3. Mechanization
This way of thinking seeks to explain virtually every phenomenon ...
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