Systems Quotes

The Essence of Change in Emotional Systems

When any key member of an emotional system can control  his own emotional reactiveness and accurately observe the functioning of the system and his part in it, and he can avoid counterattacking when he is provoked, and when he can maintain an active relationship with the other key members without withdrawing or becoming silent, the entire system will change in a series of predictable steps.

Policies are organizational scar tissue.

Policies are organizational scar tissue.

Systems thinking is neutral, nonblaming, nonreactive, and nontrianglne; it seeks to see things the way they are, not the way they should be.

Systems thinking is neutral, nonblaming, nonreactive, and nontrianglne; it seeks to see things the way they are, not the way they should be.

The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does.

A complex system can fail in an infinite number of ways. (If anything can go wrong, it will.)

Systems attract systems-people. (For every human system, there is a type of person adapted to thrive on it or in it.)