Systems Thinking Assignment: Paul Van Riper's Big Victory

SYSTEMS THINKING
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Systems thinking is a way of addressing issues or finding solutions by looking at the bigger picture as a composition of smaller entities, each having its own task. It is these smaller distinct entities that add up to form the bigger system. The story of Paul Van Riper is one that talks about the importance of strategic analysis of all information. Van Riper is clearly a systems thinker, since he understands so well the weaknesses of the more sophisticated and multi-pronged enemy. He displays some characteristics typical of a systems thinker.
A system thinker basically knows that there is a cyclic relationship between the elements of ...