A Lifetime of Systems Thinking
&gt; &quot;Schools are upside down. Students should be teaching, and teachers at all levels should learn no matter how much they resist doing so.&quot;<p>i was musing about this the other day... split the day between teaching and learning (probably alternating by hour): teach the grade below you and learn from the grade above you. teachers would mainly guide the teachers and set the agenda. the student teachers can grade papers, with adult teachers spot checking their grading.<p>&gt; &quot;...the internal market economy...&quot;<p>some chinese companies, notably haier, used some form of the internal market economy to become multinational behemoths. your group would only be successful if you added enough value to the internal value chain that another group would &quot;buy&quot; your product, with the external customer as the final arbiter in the chain.<p>&gt; &quot;<i>The best thing that can be done to a problem is to solve it.</i> False. The best thing that can be done to a problem is to dissolve it, to redesign the entity that has it or its environment so as to eliminate the problem.&quot;<p>problem definition implicitly frames a situation and thereby narrows the window of possible solutions. i&#x27;ve learned to look for these kinds of solutions because those kinds of solutions tend to be the most effective. when you want to stop a bad habit, don&#x27;t focus on the stopping. create a world where the habit is unnecessary.