Your Organisation as a System

Abstract

There is a way of thinking that the mature engineer and mathematician develop naturally as they practise their profession, and which gives them a head start in understanding how organisations work. When the manager himself can develop the same way of thinking he will find it far easier to visualise how the organisation he is managing will perform as a result of his decisions.

Even if one is perfectly content with a particular way of looking at things, there is amusement to be had in finding another way to look at them now and again.

E. de Bono (1967), The Use of Lateral Thinking