Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than becau….

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately..

For me there has never been an amount of money that makes it worth doing something that is not fun..

Most corporate mission statements are worthless. They consist largely of pious platitudes such as: "We will hold ourselves to the highest standards o….

Unless people can express themselves well in ordinary English, they don't know what they are talking about..

Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of changing….

The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is much better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing rig….

The most valuable and least replacable resource is time..

Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal..

Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, pr….

No problem stays solved in a dynamic environment..

In systems thinking, increases in understanding are believed to be obtainable by expanding the systems to be understood, not by reducing them to thei….

So much time is currently spent in worrying about the future that the present is allowed to go to hell..

Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure..

It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right..

A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem that a scientist can ….

Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence t….

Every problem interacts with other problems and is therefore part of a set of interrelated problems, a system of problems. I choose to call such a sy….

The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts..

The lower the rank of managers, the more they know about fewer things. The higher the rank of managers, the less they know about many things..

It is the satisfaction we derive from 'going there' in contrast to the satisfaction derived from 'getting there.' Recreation provides 'the pause that….