TUESDAY with SYSTEMS THINKING
Systems Thinking approach can be applied to all the situations in our life, professional or personal, as we all live surrounded by systems.
In order to do that, we have to make a change in our thinking habits, as we need to move away from a linear vision and embrace a systemic one.
This new perspective of Thinking, is one of the 5 dimensions worked out in the IDG
initiative, aiming to:
“Developing our cognitive skills by taking different perspectives, evaluating information and making sense of the world as an inter-connected whole is essential for wise decision-making.”
And the respective skills are:
“Critical Thinking - Skills in critically reviewing the validity of views, evidence, and plans.
Complexity Awareness - Understanding of and skills in working with complex and systemic conditions and causalities.
Perspective Skills - Skills in seeking, understanding, and actively making use of insights from contrasting perspectives.
Sense-making - Skills in seeing patterns, structuring the unknown and being able to consciously create stories.
Long-term Orientation and Visioning - Long-term orientation and ability to formulate and sustain commitment to visions relating to the larger context.”
Those, and the remaining 4 dimensions, can be worked out with the IDG Toolkit available in