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Index
Contents
Preface
How to Use This Book
Guiding Ideas
22 Games
1. Arms Crossed: When conditions change, habits must change.
2. Avalanche: Understand the implicit rules. They can produce different results than desired or expected.
3. Balancing Tubes: You can’t achieve long-term goals with short-term perspective.
4. The Bathtub Game: A level will decline only if outflows are greater than inflows.
5. Biodiversity Game: You can’t change only one thing.
6. Circles in the Air: Our perspective affects the actions we take in complex systems.
7. Frames: To obtain consensus be clear about the mental framework you are using.
8. Group Juggle: Adding one more apparently minor problem can sometimes collapse the whole system.
9. Hands Down: When trying to understand a complex situation, don’t limit your focus to where the action is.
10. Harvest: Over the long term, individuals often get more from cooperation than from competition.
11. Hit the Target: Delays between perception and response can lead to overshooting the goal.
12. Living Loops: It’s easier to reach your goals by building a system that achieves them for you.
13. Paper Fold: With exponential growth, small growth rates can quickly lead to extremely large numbers.
14. Paper Tear: One-way communication is much less effective than interaction.
15. Pens: Sustainability depends more on culture than on technology.
16. Space for Living: Thinking outside the box can produce win-win solutions.
17. Squaring the Circle: Without a shared goal, cooperation is ineffective.
18. Thumb Wrestling: Life is not a zero-sum game.
19. Triangles: If you want big changes, look for the high-leverage points.
20. Warped Juggle: Incremental changes produce improvements; structural changes produce transformation.
21. Web of Life: To better understand systems, make the interconnections visible.
22. 1-2-3-Go!: Actions speak louder than words.
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Authors
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