**September 10, 2024** #### #### Links [Transistor](https://share.transistor.fm/s/fa76c114) [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/3DBRCVFep0YbYeLPcVVXQv) [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/essential-dynamics-with-derek-hudson/id1542392917) [Podcast Addict](https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/essential-dynamics-with-derek-hudson/3153944) #### Summary Whether you see it or not, you have a system. If your system isn't working, you have a systems problem, and if you have a systems problem, you need a systems solution. #### Concepts - [[Getting Stuck - Podcast Episodes]] - [[Systems Thinking]] #### Quotes >There's always a system. If you are in an organization, if it's a business, a non-profit, or maybe even just a volunteer organization, it exists for some reason. People congregate to do something... So there's a combination of the efforts of different people, different resources; that's a system. Even if it's not designed as a system or referred to as a system, you've got a system...And the reason I think that's important, is because if your system isn't working, then you have a systems problem, and if you have a systems problem there are some ways to approach it that will be effective and some ways that won't be effective. >You're living in a system if you are in an organization...but we don't have a lot of tools in our education, and in the work that we do, to think about systems. >I took no course in university that purported to teach me how to think about an organization as a system. >Oversimplification, I think you see that a lot in political solutions. There's a problem...and the government proposes a solution. And they have a press release and ribbon cutting, and then "This is going to solve that problem". And it's never that simple, and the solution is typically something you are going to be able to cut a ribbon about anyway. >Breaking it down, picking an isolated thing to work on, typically doesn't work. It could, if you picked the right thing, but without systems thinking you don't know what that is. >If you love complexity, there's no end of complexity in organizations and you can dive in and feel like you are solving problems, but if you are not solving the problem that is holding back the flow, then you are not helping the system. >I'm very interested in hearing stories about systems dysfunction in organizations. I'm also very interested in hearing stories about systems dysfunction that was addressed and managed and became systems flow. #### See also - [[Episode 99 Getting Off the Comfortably Stuck Couch]] - [[Episode 95 You Better Build a Birdhouse]] %% - ![[Pasted image 20240906113531.png]]