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So, what is a system? A system is a set of things—people, cells, molecules, or whatever—interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time. The system may be buffeted, constricted, triggered, or driven by outside forces. But the system’s response to these forces is characteristic of itself, and that response is seldom simple in the real world.
Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows
Brian decided that Joe had probably not been terribly open to their suggestions. He went on. “Okay, in addition to being on time, I want everyone here to start measuring what you're doing. I believe in the old saying that if you can't measure something, you can't improve it.”
The Truth About Employee Engagement
Patrick M. Lencioni
However, the arguments against Expected Utility as a valid descriptive model should not be used to discredit it as a normative, prescriptive model of how people should make decisions. Rational, consistent decision‐making is a valuable goal worth striving for, even if it can never be fully realized. We recognize it often makes sense to act as satisficersa when it comes to the low‐impact decisions we face day to day, but when we make financial decisions of high consequence, it pays to carefully weigh our decisions and behave as rationally as possible.
The Missing Billionaires
Victor Haghani and James White
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