by James Bailey | Jan 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
For the past few weeks, we have been exploring mental models, what they are, and how common ones can help a team comprehend issues within their organization. By studying mental models, we can become better systems thinkers. From the field of cognitive science and...
by James Bailey | Jan 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
I had great feedback on the usefulness of last week’s mental models’ blog, so I wanted to share more on what I consider useful mental models. These models are practical and useful models that we can share with our co-workers to help us see and similarly...
by James Bailey | Jan 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
By now if you have been reading these posts, you realize that understanding mental models is an essential tool for thinking about systems. Mental models, for lack of a better definition, are the lenses we put on the external world. Most of our lenses are different...
by James Bailey | Jan 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
For the past two weeks, we have been exploring thinking in systems. In part one, we explored definitions of a system and the rules which help us do this. Last week we explored a three-step process that can help us take any problem or issue and understand its systemic...
