What do activities of these images have in common?

We create the future as a result of the manner in which we choose to engage with situations which concern us. There is a also a video for this insight.

All the following have a common characteristic.

All you wanted to do was put a bird feeder in your yard to attract birds and make for a more pleasant morning. And...

All you wanted to do was put a bird feeder in your yard to attract birds and make for a more pleasant morning. And...

To develop insights regarding a situation of interest there are a number of things should be considered to ensure a view of the relevant influences.

Clone of IM-752 map for working simulation model This model is derived from "Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened: Creating and Sustaining Process Improvement" by Nelson P. Repenning and John D Sterman. An expanded map is at IM-1918.

All the following have a common characteristic.

Joe P. is currently managing a project that's behind schedule and he's experiencing substantial pressure to get the project back on track.

All the following have a common characteristic.

The model construction process is actually a balancing loop which endeavors to employ an abstract version of real events to form a model which produces conclusions and behavior which mimic the real events.

This is a definition of the Systems Thinking Interactive Learning Environment (STILE) development process which was used to create Beyond Connecting the Dots (BCtD).

While these pictures represent very different things there is a common essence.

This model is derived from the paper "Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened: Creating and Sustaining Process Improvement" by Nelson P. Repenning and John D Sterman. See Insight 752 for a causal loop version of this model.

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The Home Heating System can be used to demonstrate how we get caught in dilemmas and become victims of ourselves.

The interaction of a population of Moose and Wolves.

All you wanted to do was put a bird feeder in your yard to attract birds and make for a more pleasant morning. And...

There are about a dozen known systems archetypes with an interesting set of relationships among them.

All the following have a common characteristic.

Influences which work in opposition to sustainable capitalism and influences that might work to further promote it.

Simplest Innovation diffusion model from Sterman's Business Dynamics Ch 9

Rich Pictures, Causal Loop Diagrams and Stock & Flow Simulation Models are the three types of models most commonly used.

Introduce the concept of modeling and simulation.

While these pictures represent very different things there is a common essence.