Filling the Knowledge Gap for a New Economics of ThroughputCreating Competence for an Age of ComplexityWe Can Adopt a Systems View of the WorldWe Can Build and Manage Organizations as SystemsWe Can Put New Knowledge to Work: Managing Variation and ConstraintsWe Can Learn to Manage Increasingly Digital and Decentralized Work as a Network of ProjectsWe Can Change How We ThinkThe Thinking Processes from the Theory of ConstraintsAn Unusual Journey of KnowledgeWhat Is the Theory of Constraints?A Profound InsightUnexpected AdviceOur Presentation of the Thinking ProcessesWhy Are the Thinking Processes So Powerful?Intuition, Analysis, and ImplementationThe Challenge of Thinking DifferentlyA New Verbalization for TransformationNever Lose Sight of the GoalRevealing the Nature of a Situation of Blockage – The Conflict CloudBuilding a Conflict CloudChallenging Our Mental Models and Seeing Others through AssumptionsEnvisaging a Way Out of This Blockage – InjectionsThe Core ConflictOpening Ourselves up to ChangeBeyond the Conflict Cloud: Connection and TransformationValidating the Completeness of the Injections and Their Intended Consequences –The Future Reality TreeImproving the Injections by Anticipating Potential Negative Unintended Consequence –Negative Implication BranchDeveloping an Operational Plan to Accomplish the Injections – Prerequisite TreeCreating Work Instructions to Carry Out the Tasks Necessary to Implement the Plan – Transition TreeThinking for Transformation: Some ‘Archetypal’ ConflictsThe Thinking Processes and LeadershipThe Thinking Processes and Free ChoiceAbout Intelligent Management