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Donella Meadows

  • Luis LTfez uma citaçãohá 8 meses
    The oil-exporting nations are not solely responsible for oil-price rises. Their actions alone could not trigger global price rises and economic chaos if the oil consumption, pricing, and investment policies of the oil-importing nations had not built economies that are vulnerable to supply interruptions.
  • Luis LTfez uma citaçãohá 8 meses
    So, what is a system? A system is a set of things—people, cells, molecules, or whatever—interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time. The system may be buffeted, constricted, triggered, or driven by outside forces. But the system’s response to these forces is characteristic of itself, and that response is seldom simple in the real world.
  • Luis LTfez uma citaçãohá 8 meses
    On the one hand, we have been taught to analyze, to use our rational ability, to trace direct paths from cause to effect, to look at things in small and understandable pieces, to solve problems by acting on or controlling the world around us. That training, the source of much personal and societal power, leads us to see presidents and competitors, OPEC and the flu and drugs as the causes of our problems.
  • Luis LTfez uma citaçãohá 8 meses
    Modern systems theory, bound up with computers and equations, hides the fact that it traffics in truths known at some level by everyone. It is often possible, therefore, to make a direct translation from systems jargon to traditional wisdom.
  • Luis LTfez uma citaçãohá 8 meses
    Because of feedback delays within complex systems, by the time a problem becomes apparent it may be unnecessarily difficult to solve.
  • Luis LTfez uma citaçãohá 8 meses
    Hunger, poverty, environmental degradation, economic instability, unemployment, chronic disease, drug addiction, and war, for example, persist in spite of the analytical ability and technical brilliance that have been directed toward eradicating them. No one deliberately creates those problems, no one wants them to persist, but they persist nonetheless. That is because they are intrinsically systems problems—undesirable behaviors characteristic of the system structures that produce them. They will yield only as we reclaim our intuition, stop casting blame, see the system as the source of its own problems, and find the courage and wisdom to restructure it.
  • Ernesto Ramosfez uma citaçãohá 5 meses
    Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes.
  • Ernesto Ramosfez uma citaçãohá 5 meses
    latent within the structure of the spring
  • Ernesto Ramosfez uma citaçãohá 5 meses
    A system is a set of things
  • Ernesto Ramosfez uma citaçãohá 5 meses
    interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time.
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