8.“Forget the rest of the organization, we have to take care of ourselves.”[xxiv] Linear thinkers often come up with win-lose solutions in order to be certain their needs are met. This is kind of the dinner table mentality. If you want seconds of dessert, you might hurry to eat so that you can go back for more before someone else eats it all. It also happens in schools when teachers know there is limited money to spend on supplies in the school budget, so they rush to get their requests in first, hoping that the money will be spent on their classrooms instead of others’. Systems thinking would
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