Systems Thinking

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There is a hard way and there’s an easy way, though the easy way may take years to master. For example an eight stone black belt can easily throw someone twice as big. She knows the leverage point at which to push with modest force and once sixteen stone starts moving with gravity it moves…

  http://upandcomingart.co.uk/pages/time-exhibition Engineering is rational, logical, linear and governed by proven laws of physics. If I take the back off my watch I see an intricate combination of springs and cogs working in a precise predetermined way – engineering is complicated though it has been solved – it’s a “tame” problem. Art on the other…

My six year old son, Greg, taught me how to play chess. At college my friend John tried though I just couldn’t get all the tactics and so I gave up. Seventeen years later Pete, another friend, taught Greg and the very same day Greg taught me the basic moves in simple terms and without…

How come Thomas behaves this way at home and yet a different way at work? He is the same person, though behaving in a different way. What is driving his behaviour? “Management” try to drive, influence, manipulate behaviour with “consequences” – either positive or negative, incentives or punishment respectively. Daniel Pink, author of “Drive”, questions…