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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
Content preview from The Complete Guide to Systems Thinking and Learning
Chapter II—Application: Standard Systems Dynamics 85
Tool #12 The Ultimate Question: Superordinate Goals
Application of Systems Dynamics #9: Hierarchy;
and #6: Multiple-Goal Seeking
Problems can’t be solved at the level they were created, said Albert Einstein. So, we need to go
to the next higher systems level and its desired outcome in order to succeed. Focus on
abundance (win-win) vs. scarcity (win-lose) activities through the use of higher systems-order
outcomes.
The Ultimate Systems Question: What is our common superordinate goal here?
Paradigm Shifts–Real Advances
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, ...
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