I don't think systems thinkers can tell you that they are systems thinkers. They just approach problems differently from the rest of us, and it's obvious when you see them act or talk.
One observation of the traditional African village is that systems thinking was the default framework. It sought to optimize the whole, often at the expense of the individual part. However, the villager wouldn't describe themselves as a "systems thinker."
While they deliberately planned for nonlinearity and baked it into social norms, they would not describe their actions in Donella Meadows' or Dave Snowden's vocabularies and maxims. Rather, they would tell you about the gods and ancestors, honor and posterity. Systems thinking archetypes, framed as proverbs.
I am curious to see how recruiters will codify what it means for a candidate to be a systems thinker. The question for recuriters is whether can they recognize a systems thinker who says proverbs, rather than describe frameworks.
Lots of confused writing JDs for sustems thinking a subject the know very little about.
The knowhows required for ssm, vs, csh, soda, se, sd, sast, chat, csh are very different. Plus ST requires tge behavioural competences discussed by Morgan G, (McGill Montreal )competences for 21st c organisations.
I don't think systems thinkers can tell you that they are systems thinkers. They just approach problems differently from the rest of us, and it's obvious when you see them act or talk.
One observation of the traditional African village is that systems thinking was the default framework. It sought to optimize the whole, often at the expense of the individual part. However, the villager wouldn't describe themselves as a "systems thinker."
While they deliberately planned for nonlinearity and baked it into social norms, they would not describe their actions in Donella Meadows' or Dave Snowden's vocabularies and maxims. Rather, they would tell you about the gods and ancestors, honor and posterity. Systems thinking archetypes, framed as proverbs.
I am curious to see how recruiters will codify what it means for a candidate to be a systems thinker. The question for recuriters is whether can they recognize a systems thinker who says proverbs, rather than describe frameworks.
I’m curious as well. Thanks for the background knowledge. That’s wonderful.
Lots of confused writing JDs for sustems thinking a subject the know very little about.
The knowhows required for ssm, vs, csh, soda, se, sd, sast, chat, csh are very different. Plus ST requires tge behavioural competences discussed by Morgan G, (McGill Montreal )competences for 21st c organisations.
Perhaps the writer woukd like to comment.