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  • Use Systems Archetypes to Understand, Manage, and Fix Complex Problems and Make Smarter Decisions
  • By: Albert Rutherford
  • Narrated by: Russell Newton
  • Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)
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Summary

Would you like to have better solutions to your problems? Struggling to understand why things went wrong when you did everything right? The Elements of Thinking in Systems can help you with these problems. 

Systems surround us, and we might not even be aware of it. Your household is a system. The bakery on the corner is a system. Your class at school, your department at work, and your weekend soccer team made of wholehearted dads is a system, too. You are a vital part of more complex systems like your country, the economy, or the world; learn about their changing nature and find optimal solutions to problems related to them. 

The world is more connected than ever thanks to innovations like telephone, television, computers, and internet. The way we sense reality changed significantly. Using conventional thinking to understand the world as it functions today is not enough. We need to know the elements of systems thinking to see beyond simple cause-effect connections. This audiobook will help you to find strategic solutions to every complex modern problem.

The Elements of Thinking in Systems focuses on the nine fundamental system archetypes; our mental models related to them and the step-by-step implication methods to fix them. Learn to use systems archetypes to solve your problems at work, in your business, in your relationship, and social connections.  

See through the motivations and understand the drives of contemporary politics, economics, and education. Widen your perspective, think critically, analyze deeply, clear your vision, and be more logical and rational just by applying systems thinking. 

Think differently and get different results. 

  • Learn the language of systems thinking.
  • Apply the best systems-thinking ideas, models, and frameworks in your cognitive and decision-making process. 
  • Learn to understand, design, and find solutions to the main system problems, called "archetypes".

Complexity, organizational pathways, and networks gain more and more importance in our interconnected world. The Elements of Thinking in Systems gives you real-life examples to make the adoption process of this type of thinking smooth. 

Define your problems more accurately, find better, long-lasting solutions to your problems, learn to create strategic plans using systems diagrams, and understand your place and power over the world. 

©2019 Albert Rutherford (P)2019 Albert Rutherford

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Good Introduction to System Thinking, but because there is no PDF attached it was impossible to follow some of the examples that the book illustrate. Not worth listening to it but rather have it in book for the illustrations and diagrams.

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It's a textbook

The content is OK and the presentation is OK, it's just not meant to be an audiobook.

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