Alaize Dall'Orsoletta
🔄 "Systems thinking helps me navigate complexity—balancing necessary vs. unnecessary complexity, recognizing leverage points, and understanding time delays. Life itself is a system, and I keep asking: how do we allocate our limited resources wisely?" #SystemsThinking #Complexity #LeveragePoints #WomenInSystems
How did you first encounter systems thinking, and what made it "click" for you?
It was during a conversation with a friend in 2022. He was talking about how he used "system dynamics" in his work, and "feedback loops", "stocks and flows", "nonlinear behavior". It just made sense to me to look over problems with a systemic perspective, looking for unintended consequences.
What is a misconception about systems thinking that you wish more people understood?
That systems thinking is too difficult or too complicated.
If you could give one piece of advice to someone new to systems thinking, what would it be?
(Advice to myself) There is necessary and unnecessary complexity. Focus on necessary complexity.
Can you share a moment when systems thinking changed how you approached a real-world problem?
Life, leverage points, and time delays. How do you allocate your own limited resources? Systems thinking makes me think about it over and over again.
What is one book, tool, or resource that significantly shaped your journey in systems?
The Learning Lab organized by the South African System Dynamics Chapter. Before that, I had never been in an environment where mistakes were celebrated and acknowledged as a crucial step in any learning journey.
