Applying Systems Thinking and
Common Archetypes to Organizational Issues
Module 1: Why the Systems View?
A Typical View
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The Board was not impressed. What if the problems were just symptoms of more fundamental changes in the marketplace? Or could there be other current company policies that were the underlying cause of poor performance? Many solutions had already been tried-and this new batch did not promise dramatic improvement in performance.