It isn’t that reports, policies, pilots and outcomes are bad things. It is that systems change doesn’t occur by focusing ...

If we are to work with this most fundamental property of a living system then we learn about it through ...

It would be easy to conclude that The Learning Organisation is a fantasy. Global financing and market pressures will never ...

Every time we change our business or political structures, we provoke questions about our identity. Who really are we? What ...

From John Atkinson. I get repeatedly asked about the difference between working with the ecosystem (or human system) and working ...

Here are some sound pieces of advice: the more you know about a system, the better you are at predicting ...

From John Atkinson. Cause and effect analysis is quite hard. The connection between our actions and their impact can sometimes ...

We are increasingly aware that many our living systems – human and natural – are at risk today, as we ...

In this video Cesar Hidalgo at MIT asks intriguing questions about how social and economic systems interact. He sees networks ...

A video introducing emergence ...

Complex problems may not have solutions. You can maybe make them better or worse, but they remain unresolved and stubbornly ...

Simply changing the principles doesn’t tell you what new pattern of behaviour emerges. You know a new pattern will emerge ...

To ask how we become aware of what is happening in a living system is to enquire into the consciousness ...

The knowledge and know-how about how to make the change work are retained in the network that created them, not ...

Our identity is inevitably shaped by our history. The changes we have been through to arrive where we are now ...

An amusing and informative video on systems thinking from Gene Bellinger! ...

How can we use knowledge of complexity in a practical way? I am often asked this question. I am confused ...

Since Descartes we have tried to understand the world by dividing it into its constituent parts. By breaking things down ...

In our normal lives these rules may be quite evident or quite deeply hidden, even unconscious. What are the rules ...

Introduced by John Atkinson. We often speak about the symbiotic nature of living systems, how a living thing is defined ...

Here's a short clip from Fritjof Capra introducing the concept of systems thinking and living systems, from the point of view ...

The flying cats: a precautionary tale advocating for systems thinking Operation cat drop is a much beloved cautionary tale, used ...