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Tracing Connections shows how Systems Thinking can be used to transform education, business, public policy, and research. This book reveals how a new way of thinking can radically improve your ability to work through complex issues and uncover elegant solutions. It will leave you with a better understanding of what systems thinking is, who is using it, and why applying systems thinking is so important is this world of growing interdependence. Twelve of the world's foremost systems thinkers share how they use this powerful thinking tool to change lives.

The Thinking in Systems Thinking: Eight Critical Skills, Barry Richmond, creator of STELLA and iThink -- Defines critical thinking skills that are necessary to evolve our thinking, learning, and communicating capacities.

Barry Richmond's Influence on Systems Thinking: From Academia to Widespread Accessibility, Ali Mashayekhi, Sharif University of Technology -- An explanation of the role of Barry Richmond in the growth of systems thinking.

Systems Thinking for Anyone: Practices to Consider, Steve Peterson, Lexidyne, LLC -- Identifies many existing systems problems and discusses how systems thinking is needed to tackle such problems.

Teaching by Wondering Around: Learning About the World Naturally, Frank Draper, Catalina Foothills School District -- Discusses how he has integrated systems thinking into his teaching of science to high school students.

Changing School Culture: Creating Student-Centered Classrooms, Tracy Benson, Waters Foundation, Systems Thinking in Schools Project -- Uses classroom stories to describe applications of systems thinking skills.

Modeling for High School Students: Teaching Critical Thinking through System Dynamics, Diana M. Fisher, Wilson High School -- Discusses the process of learning systems thinking. Provides examples of how students have used systems thinking and offers helpful tools for new systems thinking practitioners.

Romeo and Juliet in Brazil: Use of Metaphorical Models for Feedback Systems Thinking, John Morecroft, London Business School -- Discusses the spectrum of models from fisheries to Romeo and Juliet to global oil production.

The Value of Critical Thinking Skills: Modeling Price and Inventory Dynamics, Corey Peck, Lexidyne, LLC -- Details a client engagement in which critical thinking skills were incorporated to provide a richer, more actionable understanding of inventory and pricing dynamics in a basic materials market.

Finding System Dynamics: An Exploration in International Development, John L. Newman, The World Bank -- Describes the effectiveness of systems thinking modeling to inform international development work.

The Power of the Situation: Modeling Classic Experiments in Social Psychology, James K. Doyle, Khalid Saeed, Jeanine Skorinko, Worcester Polytechnic Institute -- Honors Barry Richmond's remarkable contribution in crossing interdisciplinary boundaries by highlighting how system dynamics can realistically interact with social/psychological models for use in future research and psychological education.

Education for an Interdependent World: Developing Systems Citizens, Peter M. Senge, MIT and Society for Organizational Learning -- Focuses on a new kind of thinking to educate youth that addresses the interconnected social, economic, cultural, ecological, and global challenges the world faces. Discusses how our current education system must change utilizing a systems perspective. ... Read more

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System dynamics wisdom through transcending times.
Lacking confluence, people get confused about managing their issues, challenges, and priorities.They are perplexed when their well-intended solutions fail to yield expected results.Deliberations on performance management, strategy scoping, and the more qualitative `human potential' often yield counterintuitive outcomes and actually wrought other issues and problems.This is the predicament of many-an-organization and community today, despite the perceptible progress in education, science, and technology.To do better - and fundamentally so - we need to grasp the confluence of our actions, decisions, and policies as these happen, i.e., dynamically, not in isolation, or through meshed-up correlations, or with abstract leaps-of-faith.

Fundamental for confluence is to trace the connections across our actions, decisions, and policies - and, as these are happening - so we have a better, a dynamic grip of where we are heading and why.This factors in realism, idealism, and pragmatism collectively.The essential and powerful way to 'connect dynamically' is through the bedrock field of system dynamics (founded by the venerated management and technology guru Prof. Jay Forrester at MIT) and systems thinking (its colloquial sibling, popularized by Peter Senge).While many technical and general books have matured this field for over half a century, "Tracing Connections" is a fresh and significant contribution that combines the philosophical and technical in reader-friendly ways to recast our issues and challenges and achieve robust results.

While paying homage to Barry Richmond, the late-great, relentless contributor and entrepreneur of the field, the book shares the bold thinking of several of its other leaders, for example:Ali Mashayekhi (growth of a field), Steve Peterson (levels of our influence), Diana Fisher, the passionate change agent of basic education systems, John Newman (international development), Jim Doyle and Khalid Saeed (the Stanford experiment), and Peter Senge (his current central theme of developing Systems Citizens).This is also an exposé of Barry's dynamic map of the learning process, which is generic and can be applied in any organization or community."Tracing Connections" is eye opening and educative, inspiring and informative, and, focuses our thinking on creating a better world through its approaches.Anyone with a 5th-grade education can use it for explorative mental exercises; serious executives and organizations can deploy these concepts to simulate scenario planning.
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