Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Manager's Guide to Applying Systems Thinking
- 5h 29m
- Dennis Sherwood
- Nicholas Brealey Publishing
- 2002
Seeing the Forest for the Trees fills the gap between Peter Senge’s best-selling The Fifth Discipline and the real world, showing you how to apply systems thinking.
Dennis Sherwood’s new book gives you all the tools and techniques you need, with many practical examples, as diverse as managing a busy back office, negotiating an outsourcing deal, and formulating a truly innovative business strategy.
About the Author
Dennis Sherwood was educated at the universities of Cambridge, Yale and California and is a Sloan Fellow, with distinction, of the London Business School. Dennis is well-known on the conference circuit, and is the author of seven previous books, including Smart Things to Know About Innovation and Creativity and Unlock Your Mind.
He was for twelve years a consulting partner with Deloitte Haskins + Sells, and Coopers and Lybrand, and subsequently an Executive Director with Goldman Sachs. Dennis is now Managing Director of The Silver Bullet Machine Manufacturing Company Limited, which specializes in building competitive advantage through innovation, working with clients such as Fremantle Media (formerly Pearson Television), Wedgwood, Marks & Spencer, Alstom, Lloyds TSB Bank, National Grid, RAC, and QinetiQ (formerly DERA, the Defence and Evaluation Research Agency).
In this Book
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Seeing the Forest for the Trees—A Manager’s Guide to Applying Systems Thinking
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Foreword
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Prologue: What is systems thinking?
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The systems perspective
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Carrying the back office rock
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Quality, creativity, and cutting costs
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Feedback loops
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The engines of growth—and decline
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Setting targets, seeking goals
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How to draw causal loop diagrams
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Stimulating growth
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Decisions, teamwork, and leadership
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Levers, outcomes, and strategy
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Public policy
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Turbo-charging your systems thinking
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Modeling business growth
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Epilogue: Complexity tamed
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Bibliography
