Systems Thinking

15 Systems Thinking Guidelines to Live in a World of Uncertainty

15 Systems Thinking Guidelines to Live in a World of Uncertainty

Systems thinking is a way of seeing the world as a series of interconnected and interdependent systems rather than lots of independent parts. As a thinking tool, it seeks to oppose the reductionist view — the idea that a system can be understood by the sum of its isolated parts — and replace it with expansionism, the view that everything is part of a larger whole and that the connections between all elements are critical.