Can we build a management flight simulator?
I.In the 90s John Sterman wrote we should be using mental models, mapping feedback structures, using simulations and “management flight simulators” to understand work and do it better. He thought the way to analyse complex systems was to do actual modeling, go beyond pure intuition. To make the dynamics explicit.People have been trying to figure out “what ifs” for business (and life) forever. The idea of a do-over is seductive. If management thinks about the world with bounded rationality, as He...
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