Thinking in Systems

system? A system is a set of things—people, cells, molecules, or whatever—interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time

A system is more than the sum of its parts . It may exhibit adaptive, dynamic, goal-seeking, self-preserving, and sometimes evolutionary behavior.

elements , interconnections , and a function or purpose .

A system is an interconnected set of elements that is coherently organized in a way that achieves something.

Then I put the parts back together to show how they interconnect to make the basic operating unit of a system: the feedback loop.

That is because they are intrinsically systems problems—undesirable behaviors characteristic of the system structures that produce them

The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior!

interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time.

A system is a set of things

latent within the structure of the spring