Systems Thinking World

Systems Thinking World

About the Systems Thinking World Group

We believe a systemic perspective provides the best foundation for creating effective approaches for dealing with situations and shaping a better tomorrow. Our purpose is... more »
We believe a systemic perspective provides the best foundation for creating effective approaches for dealing with situations and shaping a better tomorrow. Our purpose is to create content which furthers understanding of the value of a systemic perspective and enables thinking and acting systemically.

Ben Taylor & Gene Bellinger
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Ben Taylor at http://www.linkedin.com/in/antlerboy
Gene Bellinger at http://www.linkedin.com/in/genebellinger

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Helene F.

Helene

UN call for revolutionary thinking and action to ensure an economic model for survival... How to make this happen?

Warning for global suicide and time running out, Ban ki-moon called last Friday at Davos for revolutionary thinking and action to ensure ...

posted January 30, 2011

Trine M. 16 seconds ago • Edit • jessie,.. i suppose so...but i dont actually know. ... »
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Ferenc K. Nick P. Trine M.
T.A. B.

T.A.

In what ways can systems thinking be integrated with business thinking to provide relief to the planet's increasingly stressed ecosystems?

"Businesses rely on key ecosystem services like air purification, water provision, or storm surge protection, and these services are not ...

This week IBM will receive the World Environment Center's Gold Medal Award, so we asked students at the University of Michigan's Erb Institute for...

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John B. 1 hour ago • Edit • T.A. ... »
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John B. T.A. B. John B.
Horst G L.

Horst G

Introducing Communitary Compensation Centre, "goodbye money"!

Dear members, while western civilization is due to find out that the only growth in the last 6 decades was depth, (some are still ...

posted 6 days ago

Horst G L. 31 minutes ago • Edit • Lets say the town mayor and commitee of Detroit wanting to do something that citizen in and around Detroit finding back to life again and ... »
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Trine M. Horst G L. Horst G L.
Gene B.

Gene

Where does the money go?

I've been working on an Investment vs Austerity paper and I'm trying to understand some of the money flows. Specifically at this point, ...

posted 11 days ago

Ron S. 3 minutes ago • Edit • @Gene Bellinger @Gene, I have downloaded the Kindle reader and Mosler's book, based on nothing but I quick perusal of the TOC and Foreword, I ... »
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Trine M. Gene B. Ron S.
Gene B.

Gene

Systems Laws 2: Feedback Law - Is this really valid?

Law 2 Feedback. Law 2: Feedback. The output of a complex system is dominated by the feedback, and within wide variations the input is ...

posted 17 days ago

Orhan O. 13 minutes ago • Edit • I think, ... »
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Barry A. Barry A. Orhan O.
Ricardo S.

Ricardo

Is tax objection allowed when governments are wasting national incomes budgets?

The law was initially born to defend from high standard goverments greed, wil it come back to its origins? Now tax acts are directly ...

posted 2 days ago

Trine M. 4 hours ago • Edit • where did the guru swim in Ricardo? »
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Trine M. Ricardo S. Trine M.
farzad H.

farzad

What is the difference between system approach and fractal approach?can i say the fractal approach is more developed from system approach?

posted 17 days ago

Trine M. 2 hours ago • Edit • as a contribution... ... »
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Ilia B. Barry A. Trine M.
George C.

George

It has been said that a Pessimist is a well informed Optimist! To what extent could this be true? George

posted 16 days ago

Trine M. 5 hours ago • Edit • Richard, indeed that might well be, and assuming the statement has validity and worth.... ... »
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Richard W. Stephen M. S. Trine M.
Gene B.

Gene

What is the real distinction between analysis and synthesis?

Systems thinkers seem to contend, especially the evangelists, that synthesis is good and analysis is bad. That we have to leave our old ...

posted 8 months ago

Srinidhi B. 1 day ago • Edit • Interesting thesis "analysis by synthesis" employing Bayesian Inference, adaptive technique of developing perception. In my own view, ... »
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Orhan O. Claus L. Srinidhi B.
Gene B.

Gene

Are you a Systems Thinker or simply practicing self-deception? How can you tell the difference?

How does a "Systems Thinker" think differently than a non-systems thinker (I wanted to say less enlightened thinker though I thought ...

posted 2 months ago

Walter S. 1 day ago • Edit • Jessie. I really like the way you are phrasing this. It is very complimentary to my sometimes mechanical thinking. ... »
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Roger H. Jessie H. Walter S.
Gene B.

Gene

Can someone explain Romney's economic plan in a manner my feeble mind might understand?

I think what I heard him say was a 20% across the board tax reduction, closing loopholes, in a manner that makes the plan revenue ...

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Patric R. Jack R.
Hayder A.

Hayder

What is a "situation" from a systemic viewpoint?

posted 1 day ago

Rob Y. 4 hours ago • Edit • Hi Hayder, I did a UK ISEB Business Analysis course a while back, which it turned out has soft systems thinking very much integrated in to it's ... »
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Sanjiv B. Rob Y.
Helene F.

Helene

If I were to meet the Secretary General of the UN tomorrow, this is what I would tell him...

There's a horrendous discussion that's been going on for months and generated almost 7000 comments. It's about a call from the UN ...

These notes are inspired from a group discussion addressing the question from UN Secretary General on an Economic Model for survival, in discussion since Feb 2011 on the LinkedIn "Systems Thinking World" forum. 6500+ posts. It...

posted 18 days ago

Helene F. 1 day ago • Edit • Thanks Thorbjoern, this is very helpful and constructive. I will look in detail. ... »
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Thorbjoern M. Thorbjoern M. Helene F.
Oliver S.

Oliver

Global scenarios for 2025

A team of around 150 have worked on scenarios for 2025. This has been done *pro bono*, and has taken around six months to complete. The ...

Scenarios for 2025 chforum.org

These scenarios look forward to 2025.

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Vaughn L. 1 hour ago • Edit • absolutely incredible!!!!!! ... »
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Vaughn L.
Catherine W.

Catherine

Cynefin ... do professions migrate from tackling (mainly) Complex to (mainly) Complicated challenges as they mature?

I'm a relative newcomer to systems thinking and to the Cynefin framework. I wrote a short blog post yesterday at http://catherinewalker. ...

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Barry A. 1 hour ago • Edit • Catherine, ... »
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Barry A.

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