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A System is Elements, Interconnections and a Purpose, and the Interconnections Do Most of the Work

Root node of bnd-. Rests only on the entry floor. Establishes the vocabulary that bnd-boundary-is-a-choice, bnd-purpose-is-what-it-does, bnd-emergence-property-of-the-whole and bnd-sub-optimisation all rest on, and that lop- needs when a causal link is called an interconnection. Stops at the fence: no organisational-change or leadership content, and no claim about stocks or flows, which stk- owns.

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Internal System Structure as the Root Cause of Behavior in Systems Thinking

In systems thinking, a system's behavior is determined by its internal structure — the arrangement of elements, interconnections, and purpose — rather than by external triggering events; an external …