Danser avec le système…et Donella Meadows

Christophe nous invite à suivre les pas de Donella Meadows pour apprendre à danser avec les systèmes.

Où placer son effort pour un maximum d'impact ?

Donella Meadows est, entre autre, l'autrice de "Thinking in Systems", découvrez sont travail sur https://donellameadows.org

Quelques citations de cette grande dame pour vous mettre en appétit :

“There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion.”

“You think that because you understand “one” that you must therefore understand “two” because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand “and.”

“Let's face it, the universe is messy. It is nonlinear, turbulent, and chaotic. It is dynamic. It spends its time in transient behavior on its way to somewhere else, not in mathematically neat equilibria. It self-organizes and evolves. It creates diversity, not uniformity. That's what makes the world interesting, that's what makes it beautiful, and that's what makes it work.”

“Missing information flows is one of the most common causes of system malfunction. Adding or restoring information can be a powerful intervention, usually much easier and cheaper than rebuilding physical infrastructure.”

et une de mes préférées :

“...one of the most frustrating aspects of systems is that the purposes of subunits may add up to an overall behavior that no one wants.”