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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.
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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, ...