Perceiving Events, Patterns, and Structure

Christoph E. Mandl ()
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Christoph E. Mandl: University of Vienna

Chapter Chapter 2 in Managing Complexity in Social Systems, 2023, pp 13-23 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The most common mistake in perceiving structuresStructure is to disregard causal loops. We are trained to search for the cause of an event. When finding the ultimate cause, we are content. While perceiving events and patterns is daily routine in social systemsSocial system, perceiving causal loops is unorthodox, comes slowly, and requires practice and experience. Causal loops make management a complex task, yet they open up immense possibilities to shaping the future. Without causal loopsCausal loop, the reason for a current event lies always in the past, forever unchangeable. However, causal loops will repeat, so change is always possible. Finding ultimate causes rather than searching for ultimate causal loops is a worldview so ingrained in our culture that it is difficult to change. Yet simply seeing causesCause and not their interconnectedness in causal loops is shortsighted toward policies and strategies.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-30222-0_2

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