Ruth — of systems & designWhat a lovely write-up of @diana ’s book:
“I recently finished an audiobook that felt less like a "listen" and more like a software update for my mental operating system: "Learning Systems Thinking" by Diana Montalion”
“The Core Laws of the System are simple:
-> Dynamics over Statics: Systems are living things, not fixed diagrams.
-> Separation in Space and Time: Cause and effect are rarely neighbors.
-> The Trap of Local Optimization: Improving one department often destroys the performance of the whole.
-> Structure Drives Behavior: If a problem persists, the system is literally designed to produce it”
-> Dynamics over Statics: Systems are living things, not fixed diagrams.
-> Separation in Space and Time: Cause and effect are rarely neighbors.
-> The Trap of Local Optimization: Improving one department often destroys the performance of the whole.
-> Structure Drives Behavior: If a problem persists, the system is literally designed to produce it”
That really sets the bar for how to write a review that really *gets* the work, and conveys it *so well*
I now have dueling aspirations — to write a review that good, and to write a book that deserves such a well-done and lovely review!
:)
Antoine Alberti‘Future wins will come not from having the most data, but from having the best model of reality. Two leaders can look at the same KPI and see two different futures because they hold different mental models. This is "Meta-Competence." ‘
Mariyka Byba has done such a wonderful job of conveying why systems understanding is so important!