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The establishment of a goal is one way to provide a basis for results thought is has its difficulties.

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Goal Influenced Results

Gene Bellinger

A map of the elements associated with Systems Thinking as defined by different sources.

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Systems Thinking Methodologies

Gene Bellinger

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Teacher cheating on standardized tests is a recurring theme in recent national headlines, ranging from teachers looking at tests in advance to develop study guides, to teachers and administrators erasing and correcting student answers after they have submitted tests. The media and the school communities have responded to these stories with shock and out-rage, often vilifying individual teachers and administrators.

In this piece, we examine the factors that contribute to teacher cheating and provide insights from a System Thinker’s perspective.

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Teacher Cheating

Gene Bellinger

The meaningful relationship between a business and its customers should be a reinforcing structure.

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Business and its Customers

Gene Bellinger

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The limits to action structure endeavors to bring a balance between a current state and a desired state though more often than not there is some limit on the action.

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Limits to Action Archetype

Gene Bellinger

This model depicts the current understanding of how I am managing my content across all the various web repositories.

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Content Management Process

Gene Bellinger

Investigations into the relationships responsible for the success and failure of nations. This investigation was prompted after reading numerous references on the subject and perceiving that *Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty* by Acemoglu and Robinson seem to make a great deal of sense.

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Clone of Why Nations Fail

John Doe

There are numerous influences which work against the possibility of sustainable capitalism though there are a few that might be put in place to actually support its emergence.

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Sustainable Capitalism

Gene Bellinger

My first simulation model example.

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Demo Bathtub

Gene Bellinger

A savings account model is the basis for a retirement account.

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Retirement Account/Part 1

Gene Bellinger

This diagram presents the valid relationships between stocks, flows, and parameters. Ghosts of Stocks, Flows, and Converters can be created as needed.

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Stock & Flow Diagrams

Gene Bellinger

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The city of Bergen has a goal of becoming fossil-free in 2030. How do we get there? Some weeks ago, local experts from different domains came together and developed a causal loop diagram (CLD). This will form the skeleton for the modelling hackathon.

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Bergen 2030

Gene Bellinger

The strategy is actually a set of structural changes that have to be made to the relationships that cause the future to be different than the past.

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Network Magic/Strategy

Gene Bellinger

A System is a matter of perspective.

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Systems Views

Gene Bellinger

New Learning tend to reduce Outdated Thinking, Communicating & Learning though our Outdated Thinking, Communicating & Learning inhibits new learning. The question is then how do we break this cycle. Adopted from "An Introduction to Systems Thinking with STELLA" by Barry Richmond.

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New Learning Inhibited/Breaking the Cycle

Gene Bellinger

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Folders allow one to hide the detail complexity in certain places.

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Insight Maker/Folder

Gene Bellinger

Network Magic can be considered to have four primary stakeholders, the company, Support, Other Organizations, and Customers.

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Network Magic/Stakeholders

Gene Bellinger

Example of the exponential decay of a Stock with the decay rate being a function of a decay constant.

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Exponential Decay

Gene Bellinger

Two goal seeking structures attempting to resolve and based on the delay one may tend to settle for less. See also Archetypes.

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Clone of Drifting Goals Archetype

Kyle Metta

Depicts a behavior over time graph.

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Behavior Over Time

Gene Bellinger

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Rich Pictures are simply pictorial representations of the relations between a number of relevant elements. The strength of rich pictures is that they're free form without any formal rules, which also tends to be the shortcoming of rich pictures.

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Systemic Perspective Rich Pictures

Gene Bellinger

Success to the successful archetype represents two reinforcing structures which may be in a delicate balance though as soon as one gains a small advantage the resource allocation favors the more successful and the result is then rapidly skewed in the direction of the more successful. See also Archetypes.

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Clone of Success to the Successful Archetype

Nilo Guimaraes

This common archetype of systems that include relapse or recidivism allows exploration of the unintended effects of increasing upstream capacity and swamping downstream capacity. The increase in the relapse rate eventually returns to swamp upstream capacity as well. A social welfare example, based on a TANF case study, from How Small System Dynamics Models Can Help the Policy Process. N. Ghaffarzadegan, J. Lyneis, GP Richardson. System Dynamics Review 27,1 (2011) 22-44 Conference version at http://bit.ly/HlxtZj

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Swamping Insight

Gene Bellinger

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Maybe this makes sense in terms of how to access past values in Insight Maker.

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PastValues

Gene Bellinger

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