In his book “The Fifth Discipline”, Peter Senge outlines 11 Laws that will help you to understand business systems and to identify behaviors for addressing complex business problems.
- Today’s problems come from yesterday’s solutions
- The harder you push, the harder the system pushes back
- Behavior grows better before it grows worse
- The easy way out usually leads back in
- The cure can be worse than the disease
- Faster is slower.
- Cause & effect are not closely related in time & space.
- Small changes can produce big results, but areas of the highest leverage are often least obvious.
- You can have your cake & eat it too but not all at once. Not either/or. allow time for solutions to work.
- Dividing an elephant in half does not product two small elephants
- There is no blame