Building Shared Vision 5. Very basically, systems thinking is a way of helping a person to view the world, including its organizations, from a broad perspective that includes structures, patterns and events, rather than just the events themselves. This broad view helps one to identify the real causes of issues and know where to work to address them. There are certain principles of systems thinking that guide one to see this broad view. There is also an increasing amount of information and tools in this regard.
Systems thinking is the basis for the approach to developing the learning organization.
The following links are organized according to the five disciplines, e.g., Personal Mastery, Mental Models, etc. The reader should first read the following several links about systems thinking to get a basic understanding of the approach. This understanding may help the reader to integrate the information in subsequent categories, e.g., Personal Mastery, Mental Models, etc. Note that information at the links presented under each category may not be complete and in accordance with what Senge would describe for that component technology, e.g., as Personal Mastery, Mental Models, etc.