Kenneth Boulding Quote

Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such as creativity, stability, diversity, resilience, and sustainability–whether they are easily measured or not.


Attributed to Boulding in: Ramage Magnus and Karen Shipp (2009) Systems Thinkers. p. 116


Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such as creativity,...

Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such as creativity,...

Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such as creativity,...

Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such as creativity,...