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The Laws of Complex Systems Applied To Real Life
A system is a bundle of “things” that work together to produce a result. So, for example, you car is a system — a set of parts that function to provide the benefits (when the system works) or failures (when the system doesn’t work). You have the body, the tires, the steering wheel, the gas, seats, engine and it’s parts, and so on, and those all make up the “car system”. The limits of a system are defined somewhat arbitrarily. That is, a system can be broken down into sub-systems, or you can think of the system in a broader way. So, for a car, the “drive train” is a sub-system. Or, you can broaden the “car system to include the gas vendors, the roads, and so on. Theoretically one defines a system in terms of it’s function, but there’s no one way to draw the line between one system and another. A complex system is one that has many many parts to it, where the parts not only combine to provide a function, but interact with each other so that one part actually modifies the function of all the other parts. The more parts, the more they affect each ...
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Reasons Managers and Business Decision Makers MUST Understand Basics of Research: Stop Bandwagon Jumping With These Eight Steps
Reasons Managers and Business Decision Makers MUST Understand Basics of Research: Stop Bandwagon Jumping With These Eight Steps There's so much bad information, pseudo-science research and much of it is repeated endlessly in blogs and in social media. Don't get diverted from what works to what is a fad. In this article we explain the problem, and suggest 8 steps all business decision makers should take. And, for that matter, any intelligent thinking ...
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