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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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Tool #11 KISS: From Complexity to Simplicity
Application of Systems Dynamics #7: Equifinality;
#9: Hierarchy; and #12: Internal Elaboration
Flexibility, looseness, adaptability, speed, and KISS (simplicity) are more important than rigid
plans, tight controls, one-size-fits-all consistency, and economies of scale. Eliminate the waste
of complexity, bureaucracy, hierarchy, and levels in every system.
This gives rise to Systems Question #10—How can we go from complexity to
simplicity and from consistency to flexibility in the solutions we devise?
The Goal (in whatever we do)
Clarify and Simplify—Clarif ...
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