Have you heard of Systems Thinking? With Gerard Janssen

When dealing with a big challenge, is it always good to break it up into small chunks?

What if you cannot solve a problem by finding it's root cause?

How can you get, and, more importantly: understand the bigger picture?

W. Edwards Deming has said that 95% of variation in the performance of a system is caused by the system itself and only 5% is caused by the people.

Organizations can be considered systems, so in a way it is amazing that a lot of time and effort is spent in improving individual performance, while so much more could be improved by looking at the organization, or system, itself. In order to do so, one could start looking into Systems thinking.

Systems thinking is a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a system's individual parts are related to each other and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems. This is opposed to the classic 'divide and conquer' pattern where systems are broken down in separate elements for further study.

Someone who applies Systems thinking in his day to day job is our guest: Gerard Janssen. Gerard has the conviction that people, teams and organizations can, and want to, do more than what they are doing now.

Gerard's linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerardjanssen

Recomended reads to get you started on Systems Thinking: 

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practive of The Learning Organization - Peter M. Senge