Comments on: Thinking in Systems http://worldisgreen.com/2009/04/14/thinking-in-systems/ Exploring the role of entrepreneurship in the social sector Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:34:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Suhit Anantula http://worldisgreen.com/2009/04/14/thinking-in-systems/#comment-7556 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:16:17 +0000 http://worldisgreen.com/2009/04/14/thinking-in-systems/#comment-7556 You are right. I think I am making this subject complex that what it needs to be. I understand the inter-connectedness and systems stuff intuitively.

I am planning to send my daughter to a steiner school too. What has been your experience?

]]> By: wizardx http://worldisgreen.com/2009/04/14/thinking-in-systems/#comment-7555 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:14:21 +0000 http://worldisgreen.com/2009/04/14/thinking-in-systems/#comment-7555 It is also worth mentioning that ‘systems thinking’ is nothing new. It has been expunged from most Western cultures by classicism, platonism, or compartmentalised thinking as expounded in our ‘educational’ system.

I know of small farmers in my area who do systems thinking intuitively, indeed anyone who spends time in nature or who has had a good education (my children go to a Steiner school for this reason) can see the relationships, the processes, the nodes and flows, when they haven’t been disciplined to think in bits and bites and subjects and theories.

Nassim Taleb makes reference (implicitly) to this distinction between classical and systems thinking in The Black Swan, and it is also critical to Sturat Brown’s analysis of what intelligence really is – an epiphenomenon of our interactions with our ecology – http://alastairmcgowan.co.uk/stonemason/?p=8

]]> By: Thinking in Systems Online Course « World is Green http://worldisgreen.com/2009/04/14/thinking-in-systems/#comment-7438 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:34:38 +0000 http://worldisgreen.com/2009/04/14/thinking-in-systems/#comment-7438 [...] 20, 2009 at 6:04 pm (1) Tags: Course, Donella Meadows, systems thinking, Webinar I wrote about the book Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows and Jeremy from ISEE Systems informs me through this comment [...]

]]> By: Jeremy Merritt http://worldisgreen.com/2009/04/14/thinking-in-systems/#comment-7433 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:23:35 +0000 http://worldisgreen.com/2009/04/14/thinking-in-systems/#comment-7433 We are hosting an online course based on this book with the Sustainability Institute. Find out more here:

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