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Blog describing the Iceberg Model, a structured way of observing and understanding  systems and thinking through complex problems

Resources on the theory and practice of the Vanguard Method, an approach devised by John Seddon that aims to enable managers to study their organisation as a system and, on the basis of the knowledge gained, re-design their services to improve performance and drive out costs.

Paper that draws on three years’ development work with leaders in healthcare systems in north-west England to identify the skills, knowledge and behaviours required of new system leaders, and to learn from systems attempting to combine strong organisational leadership with collaborative system-level leadership approaches.

A blog about systems thinking. The author says ‘It is about the onion patch and doing guerrilla systems thinking…this is about ME doing it, an amateur.‘

Mini-directory of useful concepts, frameworks and tools from the Donella Meadows Institute (mission: ‘to bring economic, social and environmental systems into closer harmony with the realities of a finite planet and a globally powerful human race by using the disciplines of systems thinking, system dynamics, and collaborative learning’)