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March 28, 2025 andreweverett360

Liminal Thinking

Dave Gray wrote a blog post titled Liminal Thinking (9 November 2014).

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October 8, 2024 andreweverett360

Michael Mauboussin: Embracing Complexity

Tim Sullivan interviewed Michael Mauboussin for a Harvard Business Review article titled Embracing Complexity (September 2011).

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February 13, 2023February 12, 2023 andreweverett360

Second-Order Thinking

Shane Parrish wrote an article on Farnam Street titled Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform.

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August 7, 2022August 7, 2022 andreweverett360

Daniel Christian Wahl on Chaos and Complexity

Daniel Christian Wahl wrote an article for Resilience.org titled A Brief History of Systems Science, Chaos and Complexity (September 12, 2019).

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August 4, 2021August 3, 2021 andreweverett360

thinking multi-dimensionally

10-K Diver wrote a Twitter thread about thinking multi-dimensionally.

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March 31, 2021March 21, 2021 andreweverett360

Augmenting design thinking with a systems thinking approach

Rowan Conway, Jeff Masters, and Jake Thorold wrote a paper for RSA titled From Design Thinking to Systems Change, July 2017, 33-page PDF. Continue reading “Augmenting design thinking with a systems thinking approach” →

February 20, 2021April 13, 2024 andreweverett360

Russell Ackoff Beyond Continual Improvement

If Russ Ackoff had given a TED Talk… 12-minute video from 1994. Rough transcript follows.

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February 11, 2021 andreweverett360

What made Bill Bernbach great was he was a generalist not a specialist

Dave Trott wrote an article for Campaign titled Generalists Beat Specialists.

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January 25, 2021January 23, 2021 andreweverett360

Systems Thinking and the Cobra Effect

Barry Newell and Christopher Doll of United Nations University wrote an article titled Systems Thinking and the Cobra Effect. Continue reading “Systems Thinking and the Cobra Effect” →

November 28, 2020 andreweverett360

Social aspects of Systems Thinking

Pauline Roberts wrote a blog post titled The enablers of systems thinking – their amazing power and why some may find them unpalatable. Continue reading “Social aspects of Systems Thinking” →

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