Re: Terez on Sloganeering

["John K. Balor" <balor1999@yahoo.com>]

Tom and Marsha Dulz defined three principles for systems thinking:
 
1. Everything is connected to everything else
2. Nothing in the universe is identical 
3. And, nothing in the universe is static.  
 
Dr. Gitlow once wrote an article where he explained his experience with Deming as that of being in the presence of a Zen master, elaborating on Deming's "sensei" teaching methods, how SPC was a way towards "satori" etc.
 
Ervin Laszlo concludes "The systems view of the world - a holistic vision for our time" (1996) with focus on ecology and evolution being the practical consequences of systems thinking.
 
As Deming spent so much of his final years thinking about the systems view of the world, what is it that people who think in systems see that people who follow traditional science don't see? I get the impression that Deming was trying to say something extremely important about the world when he focused on systems, seeing how TQM, Baldridge, Six Sigma, ISO 9000 and all sorts of interesting efforts failed due to non-systemic thinking.
 
Why is systems so important?  What does the world look like from a systems perspective and what does it look like from a non-systems perspective?  Does anybody have some good metaphors, analogies or examples that could clarify this?
 
John Balor