Chapter 14: The Philosopher: Feasible or Desirable

[...]during the last two centuries, social change in American has advanced mostly step by agonizing step even in fulfilling an important core principle of the American system, the idea that all "men" are created equal. The cost of coordinating large and widely disbursed government and business enterprises was high, and response times were long. Because of computer chips, the cost of sending messages has, for us, reached unprecedented lows; it costs nothing. [...]Jay Forrester's paper on Counter-Intuitive Behavior of Social Systems was derived from his testimony to a committee of the US Congress, and he obviously wanted the Congressmen and Women to understand what they were getting themselves into; that is, he wanted to give them a better model of policy and social change than the obviously less effect give model they were at the time working with. [...]the problem is the model; as a strategic leader you must therefore engage in a very rigorous effort to improve your models.