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

There are limits to what one can infer from a qualitative model.

This is a model depicting the interactions of the Aesop's Fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."

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

New Learning tend to reduce Outdated Thinking, Communicating & Learning though our Outdated Thinking, Communicating & Learning inhibits new learning.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.

This is a model depicting the interactions of the Aesop's Fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."

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

This model depicts the interactions of Aesop's Fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."

There are limits to what one can infer from a qualitative model.

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

A small change in one variable can have a marked impact on multiple variables. Run the model [quits change] = 0  and consider the output. What happens if  you change [quits change] = 5. Run the model to find out. Was the change what you expected?

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.

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.

Balancing Loop with Stock & Flow Diagram.

New Learning tend to reduce Outdated Thinking, Communicating & Learning though our Outdated Thinking, Communicating & Learning inhibits new learning.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.

When endeavoring to develop an understanding of the nature of something it is generally useful to create a model of some type to aid in surfacing that understanding.

The interaction of a population of Moose and Wolves.

Balancing Loop with Stock & Flow Diagram.

This is a model depicting the interactions of the Aesop's Fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."

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

There are limits to what one can infer from a qualitative model.

Based on 1990 SDR Article. Control systems act to make their own input match internal standards or reference signals. Competent control systems create illusions of stimulus response causality. Stimulus-response theory can approximate the relationship between disturbance and action, but it can't predict the consequences of behavior. These consequences are maintained despite disturbances. See also Double loop learning and Nurse Thinking Insights

The interaction of a population of Moose and Wolves.

This model depicts the interactions of Aesop's Fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."