Systems Intelligence
Living, learning and working in balance with life’s principles.
Systems intelligence reflects our abilities as a systems thinker and our capacity to practice what we preach.
At first, resources on systems thinking could look like intellectual gobbledygook that remains unintelligible due to excessive use of abstruse terms unless you read tons of very thick books. Today I know that systems thinking is about living, learning, working and playing in balance with the most essential principles in life.
Systems intelligence is therefore a prerequisite for our individual wellbeing and flourishing and the sustainable prosperity of our organisations and society as a whole.
Some people indeed get to read lot’s of books about it — others intuitively navigate it. In any case, unless we fully embody it and start living it, it remains to be exactly that- intellectual gobbledygook with no impact. Also, only if we can explain something very simple in a way that our grandmother can get it, we have truly mastered it.
While I am still learning myself, here is my attempt to convey what it boils down to:
- understanding the whole rather than remaining…
