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Systems Judgment

Understanding how the parts of a system interact, so decisions account for the whole.

Highly Important Attribute #75 Strategic Thinking & Vision
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"Today's problems come from yesterday's solutions." — Peter Senge, Systems Judgment leadership quote
Today's problems come from yesterday's solutions.
Peter Senge
MIT Lecturer & Author
"You think that because you understand 'one' that you must therefore understand 'two,' because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand 'and.'" — Donella Meadows, Systems Judgment leadership quote
You think that because you understand 'one' that you must therefore understand 'two,' because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand 'and.'
Donella Meadows
Environmental Scientist
"A system is more than the sum of its parts; it is an indivisible whole." — Russell Ackoff, Systems Judgment leadership quote
A system is more than the sum of its parts; it is an indivisible whole.
Russell Ackoff
Systems Theorist
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." — John Muir, Systems Judgment leadership quote
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir
Naturalist & Conservationist
"A system of local optimums is not an optimum system at all; it is a very inefficient system." — Eliyahu Goldratt, Systems Judgment leadership quote
A system of local optimums is not an optimum system at all; it is a very inefficient system.
Eliyahu Goldratt
Author, The Goal

Highly Important · Attribute #75

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