Sentences with phrase «systems thinking as»

It's made with recycled computer wiring, and according to Craft, «explores the concept of systems thinking as it relates to our ecosystem.

In his now - classic book The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge describes systems thinking as a «discipline for seeing wholes.»

They inspire systems thinking as they describe everything from curriculum to leadership to policy.

Not exact matches

Think of the blockchain, the central accounting innovation at the heart of the system, as a giant billboard broadcasting everyone's holdings and financial activity at all times.

Based on our experience, we initially thought this was due to a combination of two factors: a normal, temporary performance impact when upgrading the operating system as iPhone installs new software and updates apps, and minor bugs in the initial release which have since been fixed.

You want to use a to - do list not just as a list of tasks, but as a system for forcing you to think about what's most important to you.

Damn the investors for making money on such lunacy, damn the paranoiacs who think the added fluoride in our public water systems is a mind - control drug, damn the Times for running a massive photo of a startup founder who thinks water «expires» and is described as «sitting naked and cross-legged on a hot spring, his long brown hair flowing over his chest.»

This is actually a more common problem than you might think, but it is easily remedied by a simple monitoring system, whereby work done for a client is noted and as is when payment is received.

I think about getting one of the businesses to «escape velocity» — setting up systems and recurring revenue and removing yourself as a bottleneck — after which I can focus on the second.

Studying storms such as this and comparing them to similar events on other planets (think Jupiter's Great Red Spot) help scientists better understand weather patterns throughout the solar system, even here on Earth.

«Think about it as an operating system for thriving in high - stress environments and making better decisions,» says Ferriss.

Known as the amygdala, this system sends alerts to neural pathways that comprise the fear circuit, bypassing the prefrontal cortex where logical thinking occurs.

Thinking about things you enjoy can be almost as effective as actually doing the activity which makes you happy: «the part of the brain responsible for feeling pleasure, the mesolimbic dopamine system, can be activated when merely thinking about something pleasurable, such as drinking one's favorite brand of beer or driving one's favorite type of spoThinking about things you enjoy can be almost as effective as actually doing the activity which makes you happy: «the part of the brain responsible for feeling pleasure, the mesolimbic dopamine system, can be activated when merely thinking about something pleasurable, such as drinking one's favorite brand of beer or driving one's favorite type of spothinking about something pleasurable, such as drinking one's favorite brand of beer or driving one's favorite type of sports car.

And I think that we as state and federal court systems should be moving towards getting rid of peremptory challenges because they're really just an opportunity to discriminate.»

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

«The best think you can do to make your your data remains safe is to apply updates from your operating system vendor as soon as they become available,» Krzanich said.

I've already mentioned some of the things that you need to plan for, such as global expansion and what systems you need to integrate with, but you should also think about whether you will be supporting multiple brands and products over time and whether your customer support solution can scale as you grow.

The alums fingered a complicated tax code, an inefficient political system, a struggling K - 12 education system, and persistent pressure from abroad as reasons why the U.S. will become less competitive over the next three years — something 71 percent think will happen.

So thinking of a particular shift within the system as «anti-capitalist» makes about as much sense as thinking that the discrediting of a particular scientist or the fall of a particular scientific theory amounts to the downfall of science, as a whole.

So I think as long as readers — whether they admit it publicly or not — as long as readers have a hunger for true, critical, funny stories about how the system works and about the concentration of money and power in modern society, as long as they have that appetite, then a site like Gawker.com is going to have a continued purpose.

For example, we haven't spent as much thinking about how a healthy immune system engages with the neurologic system, but it clearly does have a role as we look at neurodegenerative diseases.

As we are a team of unlikely activists — the anti-Wall Street Wall Streeters — the three ups / three downs system helps us work together, remain happier, and allows me to harness creative thinking from all angles, not just my own.

Think of each system as a mini-profit center.

Re: our Company, the BusinessCatapult.com, think of it as a social networking platform for investors w / a deal flow management system imbedded in it.

While other industries often speak of being «customer centric» or «putting the customer first,» the U.S. healthcare system rarely thinks of the patient as a customer.

Plus I think you've really got to have a pool of cash outside the banking system entirely to make «Pay cash as much as possible» a genuine privacy enhancement.

The race between automation and human work is won by automation, and as long as we need fiat currency to pay the rent / mortgage, humans will fall out of the system in droves as this shift takes place... The safe zones are services that require local human effort (gardening, painting, babysitting), distant human effort (editing, coaching, coordinating), and high - level thinking / relationship building.

And, given the importance of the SR&ED tax credit system as noted above, we do not believe it is realistic to think that the proposed council could succeed in meeting its leadership mandate without having responsibility for the success of SR&ED incentives, the largest element of the Government's support for business innovation.

While I've got a new comment open, though, here's my thoughts on the Roth debate: It's generally good to diversify your funds as much as possible, tax-wise; nobody can say with absolute certainty what the tax system will look like numerous years from now (although the smart money says that it'll probably be even more complex than our current system).

Discussing the complacency and complicity of traditional economic models, as taught in universities and adopted by central banks, Michael and Steve take us on a journey from a solar system to a galaxy of thought, taking in the history of economics to solutions for the ongoing global depression.

Some people think it is money, others think it is a payment system, many see it as a technology protocol, and the stupid see it as a ponzi scheme.

They never simply create demand «out of thin air», as many analysts seem to think, and doing so would violate the basic accounting identity that equates total savings in a closed system with total investment.

I think it is difficult to know where the next crisis will come from, and, in general, it is better to have a system that is safe from errors in judgment and surprise than it is to try and avoid errors in judgment and surprises because as along as you are dealing with human beings, there will be errors and surprises.

It seems Huawei's OS development isn't really a big secret either, as Zhao Ming, president of Huawei's Honor sub-brand, said at an event last week in Beijing, «There is no doubt that Huawei is capable of doing it,» before finishing by saying «But for now I don't think it is necessary since we work very closely with Google and will continue to use its Android system.»

I am proud that he was a Harvard undergraduate during my time on the faculty at Harvard and I think that the Bank of England is fortunate to have someone with his degree of experience in public policy and also experience as a participant directly in financial markets, at the helm at what will be a challenging time for the city of London and England and the global financial system.

Think of it as a ledger that tracks all the transactions in place of what a bank would do with a centralized system of transactions.

Loyola keeping a Catholic identity helps promote real intellectual diversity in American public life (and, again, I'd say the same as to other religious universities; I can imagine some religious belief systems that are so pernicious that, while they must be constitutionally protected, we can still say they hurt American life more than they help it, but I think that most of the traditions that found universities do have a good deal to contribute).

«What we have today is a global financial system that's just about as leveraged — and in many cases more leveraged — than before 2008, and I don't think the financial system is more sound,» Singer said.

The mechanisms that should have prevented this outcome have broken down, and as a result there's no longer much reason to think Bitcoin can actually be better than the existing financial system.

«I do think that we can do a better job of explaining how advertising works,» Zuckerberg said as he finished his response, but he did not explain that Facebook's ad system works by harnessing all the pieces of information from social network users.

This means, to return to iron, if you understood China as a growth «system», with its own logic, its liquidity channels, its institutional distortions, its balance sheets that embedded pro-cyclical or counter-cyclical tendencies, etc. you would have known that once the process started, rebalancing was going to cause iron ore prices (and prices of other hard commodities) to collapse, and I stressed, as I often do, that I did not think the word «collapse» was overly dramatic.

As for the alleged inability of governments to manage the tax deferral, if such a system were implemented, provided that people traded securities or died at a more or less steady rate over time, there's no reason to think that there would be government cash flow issues.

Whether you trade stocks, futures, forex, or options — you'll find a trading strategy here... Think of us as an independent «trading system auditor.»

The NITI Aayog, which is India's planning think - tank is working on developing a proof of concept based blockchain system which will keep a record of drugs which are in circulation as well as those which have been consumed.

In this school of thought it states that an economy is a complex system that can be affected by a lot of different things that may not even be thought of as part of the system.

Hayek does not embrace free banking as an ideal, first - best system, because he thought it prone to over-issue (as I discussed in my 1999 article based on Hayek's other writings).

Griffin explore the basic ideas of Ben Graham's value investing system, citing it as the intellectual underpinning of Charlie Munger's own system of thinking.

A lot of merchants are paying to the tune of up to 4 % just be able to accept traditional plastic at the point - of - sale systems, and I think if you look at a lot of the other mechanisms that could facilitate that asset exchange, as Roger said, you could do that with a lot of cryptocurrencies exponentially quicker and cheaper.

Anthony: I think it's important to note that this whole thing started about a decade ago with a white paper about a peer - to - peer, digital cash payment system, but over the past decade, people have realized that this underlying technology has a ton of applications, not just in financial services and payments, but in other industries such as health care, supply chain and so on.

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