The Complete Guide to Systems Thinking and Learning

Chapter I—Introduction to Systems Thinking and Learning 35

What Is Learning?

and

The Learning Organization

“If you think education is expensive, consider the price of ignorance!”

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The idealized concept of

The Learning Organization

is an important application of

Systems

Thinking

SM

. These two concepts—

systems thinking and systems learning

—are the founda-

tion of the Centre’s work. We have clarified and simplified these complex concepts into three

frameworks from Systems Thinking to guide people in their quest for these elusive “holy grails”

of learning and The Learning Organization.

Let’s examine these three systems frameworks in more detail.

Framework ...