Systems Thinking
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Resources on systems thinking, systems dynamics, and organizational learning.
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Systems Thinking 101
- Slides from an introductory systems thinking course taught by ifPeople cofounder Christopher Johnson in collaboration with Inspiring Futures and the Sustainability Institute. Distributable version, licensed under Creative Commons.
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The Language of Systems Thinking: "Links" and "Loops"
- An online paper that introduces how to "read" causal loops; by Michael Goodman, Jennifer Kemeny, Charlotte Roberts
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Organizational Learning Lexicon
- One of the most powerful tools of the organizational learning movement is language. The Learning Lexicon is an etymological dictionary that allows you to gain a deeper sense of common words such as "learning" and "system" by tracing them back to their original roots. The entries here are excerpted from The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook. From the Society for Organizational Learning.
