There are systems all around us, if we know where to look. A family unit is one system, while the community in which we live is another. That community is part of a bigger system of a county or city.

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A leader’s responsibility for an entire organization requires the capacity to see the institution as a whole. The leader must elevate their perspective to understand how all elements connect, interact ...

Drug value assessments generally fail to account for the complexities of health care systems and thus can misinform price negotiations and lead to overly restrictive access policies. Studies have ...

Beef production from conception to consumption is a complex biological system where cause and effect are often distant in time and space. For example, things that occurred to a calf while it was ...

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the brilliant new book by Scott Page, The Model Thinker. Page describes many models we can apply to data in efforts to understand our world and address complex ...

Systems Thinking is a way of looking at the way things are made in the world and understanding how processes influence one another in a larger system. Linear thinking is a narrow way of looking at the ...

Dynamic systems pays attention to patterns of change over time. Source: Drawing by A. Danvers “Personal histories are processes of change in time, and the change itself is one of the things ...

The goal of this project was to develop and conduct psychometric testing of a measure of systems thinking, the Systems Thinking Scale (STS). For this project, we: Generated an initial bank of test ...