12The Complete Guide to Systems Thinking and Learning
Summary
Each of these widely varying concepts offers a partial systems approach by making a sincere
effort to try to look at many issues at once and recognize that change needs to take place on
more than one level. In reality, however, they are only partial systems approaches and thus are
destined to make some progress and then falter.
Why do so many of these concepts die young? Primarily because while they insist they are a
systems approach, in fact, they are nothing more than linear lists of four or six or ten or eighteen
points presented in a visual or—as evidenced in the “Opportunity Model,”—a ...
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