Reference Documents
The documents below are for discussion purposes:
October 2008 - The change resistance documents have moved to here.
July 2008 - See this diagram of how divergent and convergent thinking can be used to move from a topic to a decision point quickly and effectively, as part of a group decision-making process. For System Dynamics Society discussion use. The diagram is from page 6 of this book.
May 2008 - A sneak peak of the root causes section of the model Jack is working on, prepared for the System Dynamics Society list.
April 2008 - Draft of a 19 page paper to eventually be submitted to the System Dynamics Review, after improvement. The title is The need for a standard high yield process for solving difficult social problems using system dynamics.
April 2008 - A letter from Irene Mathyssen, MP, to Bill Rathborne.
March 2008 - Here's the sketch Philip made on a paper tablecloth in Toronto, while Jack was visiting. The circle is the funders, such as Joe Starinchak's Collaboration Group. The "J" is Jack, playing a quality control role. The "H" is Hatch. SF is the world's first solution factory, staffed by system dynamics modelers, experiments, and social scientists. So far it's just a vision....
January 2008 - Here's the shorter and more current January 2008 version PDF of the Dueling Loops paper, about to be submitted to the System Dynamics Review. This version covers 7 simulation runs, while the original version covers all 22 runs and provides a more thorough description of the behavior of the model.
September 19, 2007 - The Progressive Paradox cards that did so well in opening up political activists to talking about things differently. See this forum message.
June 12, 2007 - Here are some new book cover options for the
Dueling Loops book, due to feedback from test readers:
A. A new title and subtitle.
B. A new title and subtitle, with an interesting touch.
C. Same
title, new subtitle, with the interesting touch.
The Diagnostic Project Proposal and Thoughts on Success documents
have moved to here.
Dashboard for Planet
Earth - This GIF file is a simple conceptual
representation of how various indexes and trends could be used
by our planet's pilots to take us where we probably want to
go, instead of the present default course. See this related
thread.
Michael's AA Feedback Writeup
PDF -
13 pages. This is Jack's write up of how he handled Michael's
feedback on the AA manuscript.
Part
One Introduction
PDF -
2 pages. This in a proposed change to the Analytical Manuscript,
based on Michael's review of the manuscript.
Links to Thwink.org
for November 2006 - Damjan requested this
data. It shows where visitors to Thwink.org are coming from.
The links are clickable. Most people find Thwink through
Wikipedia, but in November Damjan's
thread on PeakOil.com
caused several dozen additional visits. Note that the page
can only be used to show November 2006 data.
Dell PC Checkup.
