Distinctions

What are System Principles?

  • The underlying realities that govern how a system behaves, whether or not anyone recognizes them.
  • Constraints of reality.
  • The underlying realities that govern system behavior and constrain what structures, capacities, and interventions can achieve.

What is Not System Principles?

  • values
  • best practices
  • management advice
  • interventions
  • moral statements