The system approach to management is based on general system theory – the theory that says that to understand fully the operation of an entity, the entity must be viewed as a system. This requires understanding the interdependence of its parts.

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Systems thinking characterizes many of the world's leading → Executives . It is a formal discipline of management science that deals with the whole → Business System and in terms of the interconnections and interactions of its parts.  >>>

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"Many managers fail to see the forest for the trees. This is not an either/or problem. The trick is to see both the forest and the trees. Systems thinking is a methodology for doing both simultaneously. It's more than a methodology, it's like learning a new language and takes nearly as long as learning a foreign language to achieve maturity. The human mind is notoriously poor at predicting the performance characteristics of multivariable systems. Systems thinking can help. What you can train your mind to do is to look for counterintuitive leverage points and to construct scenarios where results beyond the obvious are possible," says Jim Botkin, the author of Smart Business.

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