{"id":16874,"date":"2020-10-20T16:16:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T20:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=16874"},"modified":"2020-10-31T23:44:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T03:44:31","slug":"system-thinking-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/system-thinking-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"System Thinking Theory: How Does it Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is the system thinking theory? Why should you incorporate system thinking into your management tools?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>System thinking theory is the ability to consider major management structures as systems. Thinking of companies, governments, and more as systems can help them run more efficiently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about the system thinking theory and how it works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What Are Systems? Basics of System Thinking Theory<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This overview explains the system thinking theory and how you can use the systems thinking approach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A system is composed of three things:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Elements: The individual things in the system<\/li><li>Interconnections: The relationships between the elements<\/li><li>Purpose or Function: What the system achieves<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>To define it more cohesively, <strong>a system is a set of elements that is interconnected in a way that achieves its function<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many things in ordinary life are systems. Let\u2019s define how a professional football team is a system and how they use the system thinking theory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Elements: The players, the coaches, the field of play, the ball<\/li><li>Interconnections: The rules of football, the way players in specific roles interact with each other, how the coaches instruct the players, how the laws of physics govern how the ball moves<\/li><li>Purpose: To win football games, to have fun, to make money<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As you look around the world, you\u2019ll see systems everywhere once you start using the systems thinking approach. <strong>So what is <em>not<\/em> a system?<\/strong> A set of elements that are not interconnected in a meaningful way or overall function is not a system. For example, a pile of gravel that happens to be on a road is not a system\u2014it\u2019s not interconnected with other elements and does not serve a discernible purpose.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this chapter, we\u2019ll dive deeper into understanding the three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/elements-of-a-system\/\">attributes of a system<\/a>. We\u2019ll then understand how systems behave over time, and how the interconnections can drive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/system-behavior\/\">system behavior<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: in this chapter we\u2019ll develop an extended example of a football team beyond what\u2019s contained in the book, but in a way that\u2019s consistent with its ideas. You should actively apply the ideas to develop your own examples of systems, such as a corporation, a university, a tree, or the government.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How Systems Relate to Each Other<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that you know the systems thinking basics, you probably want to know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-do-systems-work\/\">how systems work<\/a> together. Because you can now see systems everywhere you look, you might have seen that systems can be composed of other systems, and so on in a fractal-like pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Each player on a football team is himself a complex system, consisting of his organ systems, his thinking, his own motivations.<\/li><li>The multiple players together form a system of the playing team on the field.<\/li><li>The players with the coaching staff form an overall system at a team level.<\/li><li>The team combines with its fans and the overall city to form another system.<\/li><li>The team combines with the other teams in the sport to form another system at the league level.<\/li><li>The league combines with the other sports leagues in the world to form another system.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The systems can thus get quite complex, as we\u2019ll explore throughout the summary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The individual subsystems may have conflicting purposes from the overall system purpose, which can lower function of the system.<\/strong> For example, if the individual players on a football <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/support-your-team\/\">team care<\/a> more about their personal reputation than the success of the team, the overall team system will perform poorly. For a system to function effectively, its subsystems must work in harmony with the overall system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>System Thinking Theory and System Behavior<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, we\u2019ll understand how systems behave over time, by considering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/stocks-and-flows\/\">stocks and flows<\/a>. This forms the basic foundation that lets us build up into more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/complicated-system\/\">complex systems<\/a> in system thinking theory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Systems Thinking<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As you continue looking at the world through the systems thinking approach, you\u2019ll see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/feedback-loop-meaning\/\">feedback loops<\/a> everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, here\u2019s a challenge: <strong>try thinking of <\/strong><strong><em>any <\/em><\/strong><strong>decision you make without a feedback loop of some kind<\/strong>. Can you think of any?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might start finding that many things influence each other in reciprocal ways. Instead of pure cause and effect, <strong>you might see that the effect actually influences the cause<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If population growth causes poverty, does poverty also cause population growth?<\/li><li>If the government makes a bad decision for the nation, did the nation do something to cause the government to make that bad decision?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Invert your thinking. If A causes B, does B also cause A?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This type of systems thinking makes blame much more complicated. It\u2019s not an easy cause and effect relationship. It\u2019s a system of interconnected parts and complicated feedback loops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that you know that systems thinking basics, you&#8217;ll start seeing systems everywhere. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the system thinking theory? Why should you incorporate system thinking into your management tools? 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