From Analytical to Systems Thinking

Event details

A one-day intensive for leaders on trading analytical habits for systems thinking — and redesigning how their organization actually performs.

Over a focused day, we work through why analytical thinking — decomposing problems into parts and optimizing each — quietly degrades the performance of the whole. You will see how organizations behave as systems: how structure drives behavior, how local fixes create global problems, and how leverage rarely sits where the symptom appears. We translate systems thinking from theory into the specific decisions you make about roles, incentives, hand-offs, and information flow. You leave with a way of seeing your organization that does not switch off when you go back to work on Monday.

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What we cover

• Why analytical thinking breaks down at the level of the whole organization.
• Structure over blame: how design, not effort, sets performance.
• Finding leverage — the small changes that move the whole system.
• Reading feedback loops, delays, and the second-order effects of decisions.
• Redesigning roles, incentives, and information flow around outcomes.
• Building systems-thinking habits that survive the return to daily work.

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Who leads it

The session is led by Manish Jain, an Applied Organizational Theorist who has spent years helping leaders swap analytical thinking for systems thinking. His work sits at the intersection of organizational design, complexity, and the day-to-day decisions that decide whether change lasts.