
Chapter II—Application: Standard Systems Dynamics 79
Tool #10 Multiple Causes, Root Causes
Application of Systems Dynamics #2: Open System View;
#11: Steady State, Dynamic Equilibrium; and #12: Internal Elaboration
Use free-flowing and participative management and active-learning techniques to find linkages
and the multiple causality factors that are really the root causes.
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This gives rise to Systems Question #9—
What are the root causes?
Managerial leverage and the long-term impacts of what you do each day look like this:
PRINCIPLE: Root causes and effects are usually not linked closely in time and space.
Our simplistic cause–effect analyses and desire ...