Systems Thinking: Intelligence in Action

✍ Scribed by Piero Mella (auth.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Mailand
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 310
Series: Perspectives in Business Culture 2
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The core belief underlying this book is that the most useful and effective models to strengthen our intelligence are system ones, developed following the logic of Systems Thinking. Such models can explore complexity, dynamics, and change, and it is the author’s view that intelligence depends on the ability to construct models of this nature. The book is designed to allow the reader not only to acquire simple information on Systems Thinking but above all to gradually learn the logic and techniques that make this way of thinking an instrument for the improvement of intelligence. In order to aid the learning and practice of the Systems Thinking discipline, the author has abandoned a rigid formal language for a more discursive style. He writes in the first person, with an ample number of citations and critical analyses, and without ever giving in to the temptation to use formal mathematics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
The Kingdom of Circular Processes: The Logical Foundations of Systems Thinking....Pages 1-41
The Arrow That Constructs the World: The Causal Loop Diagrams Technique....Pages 43-116
Systems Thinking for the Control of Phenomena: How to Construct a Control System....Pages 117-196
Systems Thinking Applied to Problem Solving: System Levers....Pages 197-277
Back Matter....Pages 279-303

✦ Subjects

Business/Management Science, general; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Administration, Organization and Leadership; Industrial and Organisational Psychology; Science, general; Pragmatism

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