Models Can Easily Become So Complex That

You Should Issue Demerits For Tree Cutting Or The Destruction Of Humus.

The World Is A Complex, Interconnected, Finite, Ecological - Social - Psychological - Economic System. We Treat It As If It Were Not, As If It Were Divisible, Separable, Simple, And Infinite. Our Persistent, Intractable Global Problems Arise Directly From This Mismatch.

A Good Leader Sets The Right Goals, Gets Things Moving, And Helps Us To Discover That We Already Know What To Do.

Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Distort, Delay, Or Sequester Information

A System Is A Set Of Things People, Cells, Molecules, Or Whatever Interconnected In Such A Way That They Produce Their Own Pattern Of Behavior Over Time... The System, To A Large Extent, Causes Its Own Behavior.