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…to meet the challenge of impending system collapse we need what amounts to a prothesis for the mind.
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…technological revolutions may save us from ourselves, letting us use resources in ways that protect the planet’s vital life-support systems – if we can find methods that don’t just create new problems or conceal old ones.
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The singular focusing ability that allows systems…
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While some of us have a knack for systems, for many or…
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…systems awareness in the absence of self-awareness and…
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To be truly great, leaders need to expand their focus to a further horizon line, even beyond decades, while taking their systems understanding to a much finer focus.
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Great leaders do not settle for systems as they are, but see what they could become, and so work to transform them for the better, to benefit the widest circle.
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The largest lens for our focus encompasses global systems; considers the needs of everyone, including the powerless and poor, and peers far ahead in time.
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Goals are the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results.
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In order to improve for good, you need to solve problems at the systems level. Fix the inputs and the outputs will fix themselves.
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