The history of the systems approach's successes is filled with stories of people who were unwilling to accept a commonly adopted explanation for the cause of certain problems. Systems Dynamics itself arose out of Jay Forrester's efforts to explain the causes of staff fluctuation in one of General Electric's factories. The generally accepted explanation of unwanted fluctuations due to the business cycle did not seem right to Forrester, so he attempted, equipped with only a pencil and paper, to describe the systems structure responsible for the employment dynamics. He found that the real cause of the problem was not the business cycle but the company's internal hiring and firing policies. In the introduction

to A Systems Perspective of Public Health book, the story of the physician Ignaz Semmelweis, who was not willing to accept the high maternal mortality rate from postpartum puerperal sepsis, is mentioned. The generally accepted "nothing can be done about it" troubled him and, equipped with the same knowledge as everyone else, he tried to make connections that had never been made before. In our article on Systems Thinking, you will learn that he, like many before and after him who truly understood, attempted to uncover a systems structure. And he succeeded. For those who approach life the same way Forrester, Semmelweis and our clients do, we have created a unique set of learning programs to ease their way to mastery of the systems perspective. The essence of years of experience and countless problems faced and solved in every imaginable area of human endeavor can be found in our course curriculum as well as in the literature written by our authors. There's nothing to wait for, take your pick from our menu and sign up today!