What I know about #systemsthinking

Watch the video — and pay attention to the sigils!

• It’s about #sensemaking hard until you know what is really going on, to get to the root cause of wicked problems and solve them
• Everything is connected, so everything is a #livingsystem — it’s quite mystical, really
• You start from designing an idealised future state
• #Hierarchy is bad — we need leaders to run #systems instead
• Agile is all about systems thinking, and so is Team of Teams, and other cool things
• We’re educated to not use our critical thinking facilities — and anyway we only use 10% of our brainpower
• It’s more powerful if you also draw on the solid insights of #neuroscience
• Because of #complexity, nothing can be predicted
• Systems thinking is old, but good, but limited. Complexity is brand new, and it’s a science, so it’s better. #Cybernetics is a bit old and weird, and only slightly disturbed people still study it.
• The best way of telling them apart is to look at what people call themselves
• But we’ll never approach the insights of the old Masters
• The things on the left side are not as good as the things on the right side (but sometimes they switch the order, so you gotta be careful)
• It’s confusing, but fortunately, there are a few true experts who can tell you the answer
• What have you learned? Wrong answers only

Just to be clear, this was an April Fool’s day joke…
Everything (to the best of my ability) is wrong…

A real Easter Egg goes to the first person to spot at least 4/5 of the little jokes hidden in the video (with only one point for listing as many as you like in the opening/closing image)