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- Title
The Promise of Systems Thinking for Shifting Fundamental Dynamics.
- Authors
SPANN, SCOTT; RITCHIE-DUNHAM, JAMES
- Abstract
All too often, despite people's best efforts and intentions, the problems they seek to eliminate get worse. This article looks at what happened when a diverse group of leaders in Guatemala set out to understand the fundamental dynamics underlying poverty in their country. By integrating principles and practices from systems thinking and system dynamics with those rooted in group dynamics and collaboration building, they created an integrated systems map that they all agreed represented their world. The representatives then came to shared agreement about the overall goal of their collective work and identified critical resources that would enable them to move in the direction they all want to go.
- Subjects
GUATEMALA; POVERTY reduction; THOUGHT &; thinking; POVERTY; DYNAMICS
- Publication
Reflections, 2012, Vol 11, Issue 4, p11
- ISSN
1524-1734
- Publication type
Article