Cracking the Mystery of the Progressive Paradox - (the book)

A new approach to solving the perennial problems of sustainability, war, poverty, corruption and other cases of the paradox

Manuscript ^PDF - This is a book in progress. It combines the Analytical Activism and Dueling Loops books into a single book, with some significant new material. It's designed to serve as what you read after you've seen the Cracking the Mystery of the Progressive Paradox film, and is the best small book on the work at Thwink.org.

I've completed the first draft of the first five chapters. This is all that's in the PDF file. If you have comments or suggestions, please contact us. Thanks!

For those interested in just the chapter on Simulation Modeling, here it is ^PDF . Here is the Vensim model ^ZIP used in the chapter.

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Every Field Needs the Right Foundation
1. The Paradox
2. Process Is Everything
3. The System Improvement Process
4. Two Hundred Years of the Wrong Process
5. Simulation Modeling
6. First Principles
Part 2: Subproblem A – Overcoming Change Resistance
7. But First the Light Bulb Has to Want to Change
8. Digging Deep to Find the Root Causes
9. The High Leverage Point That Has Never Been Tried
10. Raising Ability to Detect Political Deception
Part 3: Subproblem B – Achieving Proper Coupling
11. The Case of Improper Coupling in Western Europe
12. The Most Counter-Intuitive Root Cause in History
13. The Folly of the Oxymoron of Sustainable Development
14. Once You Find the Root Causes the HLPs Are Obvious
15. Reengineering the Corporation to Be a Trusted Servant
Part 4: Subproblem C – Avoiding Excessive Model Drift
16. The Battle for Niche Succession
17. Beyond Locke and Rousseau 250
18. The Tantalizing Potential of a Permanent Race to the Top
Appendix
Endnotes
Index