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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
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372 The Complete Guide to Systems Thinking and Learning
The Natural Laws of All Living Systems
(continued)
II. The Inner Workings
(continued)
9.
Hierarchy
Flatter
Organization/
Self Organizing
9.
Bureau-
cracy
Command
and Control
All systems are
linked to other
systems (some
larger, some
smaller) in the
hierarchy.
Multilevel systems
are too complex to
fully understand
and manage
centrally.
How can we
move from
complexity to
simplicity, and
from rigidity to
flexibility, in the
solutions we
devise?
What levels of
the overall entity
do we want to
change?
Large-company divisions
often do not know the
multiple outcomes of the
overall system. This is why
such divisions tend to be ...
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