Everything I Need to Know I Learned by Gardening.
If you have the skills to grow a great garden, then you have the systems-thinking, project-management and interpersonal skills to grow a great business. To develop business skills, garden.
Can you see systems? Can you see the points of leverage in a system?
By developing ecosystem-thinking, you develop skills for medicine, law, music, and love. This website is dedicated to finding/developing and providing ways to develop systems-thinking skills - qualitative and/or quantitative.
Welcome to our Garden. Ultimately we will experience this site like a garden. Navigating the website will feel like exploring a garden. Developing the website will feel like growing a garden. To learn about website development plans, to share your suggestions or to join the development team, click here.
Potential Irony: This has become a graphics-and-math-rich
site. It would be ironic if, instead of gardening and conversing, we
developed computer fetishes. Perhaps being conscious of that potential
pitfall is all we need to avoid it.
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Qualitative vs. Quantitative
Modeling:
Systems can be modeled in a qualitative or quantitative manner (cf.
Ossimitz 1991a). The difference applies even at the level of descriptive
tools being used: verbal descriptions and causal loop diagrams are more
qualitative, stock-and-flow diagrams and equations more quantitative ways to
describe dynamic systems. Although there is a structural similarity between
causal loop diagrams and stock-and-flow diagrams, they belong to different
modeling paradigms. In quantitative modeling the model elements are quantifiable
entities with functional relations between them.
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Video Animation with Voice-Over: Deoxygenation of Lakes (opens a Real Media video player) | ||||||||||||
| System-links diagrams Can you move H
towards T, such that when you stop exerting force, it will stay? Are you surprised when, after exerting effort to change someone/something and being satisfied that they have changed, you stop exerting effort, and the old status quo resumes? | ||||||||||||
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| Fractals Do fractals facilitate systems-thinking? Or are they all excitement, no value? An educational and aesthetically-rich selection of fractals is available here.
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