Getting started

The "Systems Thinking Loop" (or "ST Loop") is where the rubber meets the road for systems thinkers. It is perhaps the most important of all the images because it describes WHAT systems thinking really is and HOW to do it. It is best to digest this image (Systems thinking itself) in three bites (red):

The Australia and New Zealand Systems Society presents Systems Thinking in Daily Life with Dr. Derek Cabrera of Cornell University. 

The "Systems Thinking/ DSRP Loop" (below) captures Systems Thinking in a nutshell. The Loop helps us by understanding the simple rules for the organization of any thing, from material stuff to information and ideas. 

In 1900, 8 out 10 jobs involved work with one’s hands. Today, the statistic has flipped—8 out of 10 jobs involved working with ideas (with emphasis on medical, biomedical, and data analysis jobs).

This blog was written by Paul Corsi as a project for PADM 5449 at Cornell University. 

This blog was written by Ashley Hock as a project for PADM 5449 at Cornell University. 

This blog was written by Austin Reid as a project for PADM 5449 at Cornell University.  The following three-part poster series is designed to serve as a teaching aid in preschool settings to assist children in understanding feelings and how to process them. This poster series can also be used as a teaching aid for children between the ages of three and five in other settings including daycare, summer camp or Sunday school. The first poster provides children with an opportunity to think about how they are feeling and explain why. Children will point to the face that most accurately mirrors how they are feeling and they can also learn from others how they are feeling. This check-in can also be done as a one-on-one exercise between a guardian and a child.  

Tips for getting started doing systems thinking; incorporating systems thinking into your life and work.  Our recommended path for new systems thinkers is as follows:

  There are a lot of techniques for learning something new and the learning sciences give us insight into what works: scaffolding, repetition, practice, metacognition, experiential learning and reflection, social cognition, embodied cognition, MAC, etc.

This post was adapted from Thinking At Every Desk.  While knowledge and thinking skills have always been important, globalization makes them more critical than ever before.

This article is a part of the sliders series. You can find more slider posts at the sliders tag. 

Staff: I'm curious to hear more about the slider,  "People As A Means Versus Ends." And when I look at how you've drawn it up (see the map here), it seems to me that this slider has to do with how a person interacts with other people. Can you explain a little bit more about what the basics of the slider?

This blog is part of a set of blogs under the tag "cognitive jigs." Be sure to checkout the tag to read them as a group and learn how cognitive jigs are at play in our everyday lives. Lists are everywhere from the beginning of our life. Simply put, lists are part-whole arrangements of the Systems rule as used in the DSRP Theory.

“Systems Thinking” sounds like something complicated, technical, and maybe even a little boring. But what if it’s actually a name for something you naturally do all day?

“Systems Thinking” sounds like such a grandiose thing, requiring complicated tools designed to solve complicated problems. But what if there is more (or less) to it? What follows is a short blow-by-blow account of how I solved a small problem using DSRP (Distinctions, Systems, Relationships, Perspectives).

July 20th, 2020 Dr. Laura Cabrera spoke today on the simple rules of systems leadership in partnership with Systemic Excellence Global. 

  Dr. Cabrera's "Dinner Table Story" has become so requested that a reenactment was added to CRL's STML500 Certificate in Systems Thinking. 

This post is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of Flock Not Clock. 

We're committed to increasing public understanding of science about systems thinking. We strive to make the basic science of systems thinking accessible without loss of fidelity. One of the many

I've taught SystemsThinking/DSRP[1] for a long time... I've taught it to scientists, doctoral students, and graduate students. I've taught it to high schoolers, teachers of all stripes, grade