Shifting Perspective: Becoming a Systems Thinker - Paperback

Sandbrook, Martin: - "When I did an MBA at the Bath University management school, I was taught to separate organisations into functions, as if they were unrelated to each other. When I did an MSc in the same School in the same University nearly 20years later, I was taught the opposite. I learned to look at systems and see them whole. Everything is in relation to and interdependent with other parts of the system. If I take something to pieces to understand it, I lose its emergent nature - like saying glass is sand, so missing its incredible emergent properties as a transparent barrier.So my own thinking shifted from reductionism to seeing things whole, from complicated to complex, from telling to asking, from solving problems to finding solutions. I became a Systems Thinker, wishing I had done the MSc when I did the MBA. But, better late than never, I decided I must pass on what I had learned. After 15years of leading courses in Systems Thinking I have, before I bow out, consolidated my thinking into a book - 'Shifting Perspective: Becoming a Systems Thinker'. I hope the shift helps you as much as it helped me."