Managing Complex Systems: Thinking Outside the Box

1. Systems and Thinking.

2. Building and Managing Systems.

3. Problems to Ponder.

4. The Inventive Mind.

5. Perspective 1: Broaden and Generalize.

6. Perspective 2: Crossover.

7. Perspective 3: Question Conventional Wisdom.

8. Perspective 4: Back of the Envelope.

9. Perspective 5: Expanding the Dimensions.

10. Perspective 6: Obversity.

11. Perspective 7: Remove Constraints.

12. Perspective 8: Thinking with Pictures.

13. Perspective 9: The Systems Approach.

14. Thinking in Groups.

15. Widening the Circle.

16. Final Thoughts and a Test.

Index.