Subject: Systems Thinking

Posted by Richard Langheim on 8/29/2006
In Reply To:Systems Thinking Posted by Anderson, Lascelles on 8/29/2006

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I agre with the point about structures being a fundamental proposition. In addition I paraphrase a comment by Jay Forrester at the Boston SDS conference.
At one point he rose and said [approximately] 'anything that changes is governed by feedback loops.'
At which point he sat down! I think that a reasonable undertanding of systems thnking involves looking for the feedback loops that drive the system.

Rich Langheim
Associate Professor of Education
Ramapo College of New Jersey

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