The Systems Thinker | Book Series

Overview:

Become a Systems Thinker and discover how to approach your life from a completely new perspective.

What is systems thinking? Put it simply, thinking about how things interact with one another.

Why should this matter to you? Because you are a system. You are a part of smaller and larger systems – your community, your country, your species. Understanding your role within these systems and how these systems affect, hinder, or aid the fulfillment of your life can lead you to better answers about yourself and the world.

Information is the most precious asset these days. Evaluating that information correctly is almost priceless. Systems thinkers are some of the bests in collecting and assessing information, as well as creating impactful solutions in any context.

The Systems Thinker will help you to implement systems thinking at your workplace, human relations, and everyday thinking habits.

Boost your observation and analytical skills to find the real triggers and influencing forces behind contemporary politics, economics, health, and education changes.

Systems thinking clears your vision by teaching you not only to find the differences between the elements but also the similarities. This bi-directional analyzing ability will give you a more complex worldview, deeper understanding of problems, and thus better solutions.

The car stopped because its tank is empty – so it needs gas. Easy problem, easy solution, right? But could you explain just as easily why did the price of gas raise with 5% the past month? After becoming a systems thinker, you’ll be able to answer that question just as easily.

Change your thoughts, change your results.

  • What are the main elements, questions and methods of thinking in systems?
  • The most widely used systems archetypes, maps, models, and analytical methods.
  • Learn to identify and provide solutions even the most complex system problems.
  • Deepen your understanding about human motivation with systems thinking.

The past fifty years brought so many changes in our lives. The world has become more interconnected than ever. Old rules can’t explain the new world anymore. But systems thinking can. Embrace systems thinking and become a master of analytical, critical, and creative thinking.

Authors:

Albert Rutherford

Published In:

24 May 2018

 

Measure What Matters | Book Series

Overview:

Measure what matters is a revolutionary approach to business that has been adopted by some of silicon valley’s most successful start-ups. It is a movement that is behind the explosive growth of intel, google, amazon and uber and many more.

Measure what matters is about using objectives and key results (or Okrs) to make tough choices on business priorities. It’s about communicating these objectives throughout the company from entry level to CEO and it’s about collecting timely, relevant data to track progress to measure what matters.

When google first started out, its founders had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy and sky-high ambition but no business plan. John Doerr taught them a proven approach to operating excellence that has helped them achieve greatness. He has since shared okrs with more than fifty companies with outstanding success.

In this book, Larry page, bill gates, bono, Sheryl Sandberg and many more explain how Okrs have helped them exceed all expectations and run their organisations with focus and agility.

Authors:

John Doerr

Published In:

24 May 2018