WHAT IS SYSTEMS THINKING?
Systems thinking offers you a powerful fresh perspective, a specialized language, and a set of tools that you can use to address the most stubborn problems in your everyday life and work. Systems thinking is a way of understanding reality that emphasizes the relationships among a system's parts, rather than the parts themselves. Based on a field of study known as system dynamics, systems thinking has a practical value that rests on a solid theoretical foundation.
Why is systems thinking valuable? Because it can help you design smart, enduring solutions to problems. In its simplest sense, systems thinking gives you a more accurate picture of reality, so that you can work with a system's natural forces in order to achieve the results you desire. It also encourages you to think about problems and solutions with an eye toward the long view--for example, how might a particular solution you're considering play out over the long run? And what unintended consequences might it have? Finally, systems thinking is founded on some basic, universal principles that you will begin to detect in all arenas of life once you learn to recognize them.
WHAT IS ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING?
As Peter Senge wrote in his seminal book The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization, an organization is learning when it can bring about the future it most desires. The field of organizational learning explores ways to design organizations so that they fulfill their function effectively, encourage people to reach their full potential, and, at the same time, help the world to be a better place.
In today's fast-paced, highly competitive work world, the ability to learn actually gives your organization the edge it needs to survive--and thereby keep fulfilling its purpose.
Pegasus helps you and your organization take the steps required to support systems thinking--the keystone of organizational learning--and the four other key learning disciplines: personal mastery, mental models, team learning, and shared vision.