"Systems thinking is a discipline for
seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than
things, for seeing patterns of change rather than static snapshots. It is a set
of general principles- distilled over the course of the twentieth century,
spanning fields as diverse as the physical and social sciences, engineering,
and management...
During the last thirty years, these tools
have been applied to understand a wide range of corporate, urban, regional,
economic, political, ecological, and even psychological systems. And systems
thinking is a sensibility- for the subtle interconnectedness that gives living
systems their unique character."
Peter Senge
The Fifth Discipline
