Quote by Rich Jolly

“2. Identify Feedback Loops and Delays—”

— Rich Jolly

“3. Look for Building Blocks—Look at your diagram of feedback loops and delays to identify potential building blocks, either linked feedback loops or archetypes.”

— Rich Jolly

“Feedback and feedforward loops cause components within a system to reinforce or counteract each other.”

— Gene Kim

“Delay is another crucial component in the structure of dynamic systems. In most cases, the process of feedback is not instantaneous. As the delay…

— Rich Jolly

“7. Remember It’s Only a Model—Always remember George Box's excellent advice, “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” The feedback and delays you…

— Rich Jolly

“System variables are frequently not being uncontrollably manipulated by outside agencies like puppets on a string, but rather are responding to the hidden structures…

— Rich Jolly

“When we, system dynamicists, see a pattern persist in many parts of a system over long periods, we assume that it has causes embedded…

— Donella H. Meadows

With the subsequent strong support from cybernetics , the concepts of systems thinking and systems theory became integral parts of the established scientific language,…

— Fritjof Capra

“The systems-thinking lens allows us to reclaim our intuition about whole systems and • hone our abilities to understand parts, • see interconnections, •…

— Donella H. Meadows

History is about loops and continuums.

— Mike Bidlo

Closed systems run down and get more chaotic over time. Always get better by being 'open' to outside energy and templates of better ways…

— Henry Cloud

“Reinforcing feedback occurs when a change builds on itself over time. In the language of living systems, this particular kind of reinforcing feedback is…

— Linda Booth Sweeney