The Systems Thinker

Essential Thinking Skills for Solving Problems, Managing Chaos, and Creating Lasting Solutions in a Complex World

By: Albert Rutherford

Narrated by: Russell Newton

Find the optimal solutions to your problems. Gain a deep understanding of the “what, why, how, when, how much” questions of your life.

Become a systems thinker and discover how to approach your life from a completely new perspective.

What is systems thinking? Put simply, it is thinking about how things interact with one another.

Why should this matter to you? Because you are a system. You are a part of smaller and larger systems - your community, your country, your species. Understanding your role within these systems and how these systems affect, hinder, or aid the fulfillment of your life can lead you to better answers about yourself and the world.

Information is the most precious asset these days. Evaluating that information correctly is almost priceless. Systems thinkers are some of the bests in collecting and assessing information, as well as creating impactful solutions in any context.

The Systems Thinker will help you to implement systems thinking at your workplace, human relations, and everyday thinking habits.

Boost your observation and analytical skills to find the real triggers and influencing forces behind contemporary politics, economics, health, and education changes.

Systems thinking clears your vision by teaching you not only to find the differences between the elements but also the similarities. This bidirectional analyzing ability will give you a more complex worldview, deeper understanding of problems, and thus better solutions.

The car stopped because its tank is empty - so it needs gas. Easy problem, easy solution, right? But could you explain just as easily why the price of gas rose five percent the past month? After becoming a systems thinker, you’ll be able to answer that question just as easily.

Change your thoughts, change your results.

• What are the main elements, questions, and methods of thinking in systems?
• The most widely used systems archetypes, maps, models, and analytical methods.
• Learn to identify and provide solutions even the most complex system problems.
• Deepen your understanding about human motivation with systems thinking.

The past 50 years brought so many changes in our lives. The world has become more interconnected than ever. Old rules can’t explain the new world anymore. But systems thinking can. Embrace systems thinking and become a master of analytical, critical, and creative thinking.

©2018 Albert Rutherford (P)2018 Albert Rutherford

An over simplification of systemic thinking.

I like the idea of this book. Quite sure I can identify his voting patterns... 🙄

Strong and easy to understand

The tone and pace of the new concepts or way of thinking is good. A listener may need to exercise some patience in getting thru some of the chapters, but overall a very good listening experience.

Essential reading for all as it presents clearly the basics of system theory..

Recommended reading to understand how we are all interdependent and how linear cause and effect is obsolete

Politically biased, but some very good ideas

This whole book is definitely biased towards the progressive side of politics, but has some excellent ideas about systems. The solutions are good but could be insurmountable in today's society unfortunately. I like the real world data that was presented in the narrator was good. This is a perfect book for audible since I think it would be quite droll if you were reading it on your own!

This helped me understand my mind more

I am naturally a systems thinker, but I’m working on developing the framework for understanding how to organize these thoughts into plans of action.

I see how the components of a system interact with one another all the time and listening to this book helped me to appreciate my mind, while giving me direction and clarity about how to approach these problems in a more organized fashion. This book is entertaining and the author provides many tangible examples that make the concepts easy to grasp for someone who is new to formal systems thinking.