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Systems Theory
Complexity Theory
Decision Analysis
Thinkers/Structures
Features of Complexity
100
Self Fulfilling Prophecy.
What is the Pygmalion Effect?
100
Recursive patterns that maintain equilibrium in the system.
What are strange attractors?
100
Consider problem solving in one way, A causes B.
What is a linear relationship?
100
Consider multidirectional and non linear relationships among variables. They don't mind messy problems.
What is an Integrative thinker?
100
Problems are symptoms with a root cause.
What are the Five Whys?
200
The parts alone cannot do what the system can.
What is the holism principle?
200
Strategic small changes have a big effect.
What is the Butterfly Effect?
200
Reduced to looking only their input and output.
What is the Reductionist Paradigm?
200
Consider one way, linear relationships between variables, in which more A produces more of B.
What is a conventional thinker?
200
Critical 20% makes 80% of the difference.
What is the 80/20 Rule?
300
A systemic view to problems invites a different set of responses.
What is Reframing?
300
Symmetry of irregularity across scales.
What are fractals?
300
The notion that an organism interacts dynamically with its environment.
What is Complexity?
300
Federal government, state government, international business.
What is a Complex Structure?
300
A book written by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner that asks us to look at things on a systemic level.
What is Freakanomics?
400
A universal story line that guides the system.
What is meta narrative?
400
Systems grow in the direction of feedback.
What is Emergence of Patterns?
400
Limited certainty and predictability.
What is Non-Linear?
400
Small business, classroom, rural town.
What is a Simple Structure?
400
Objective Measurements.
What is Black Box thinking?
500
Only focus on the rationale level (policy and procedure), focus on what motivates and drives (attitude, emotion, thoughts and relationships).
What is the Iceberg Principle?
500
Planning for the best, preparing for the worst.
What is Self-Organized Criticality?
500
Complexity gives way to chaos.
What is Disorder?
500
Seven rules at work in this system. One of which is strange attractors.
What is Simple Complexity?
500
Not the lighting, but someone measuring worker productivity.
What is the Hawthorne Effect?