Why Things Don't Work: It's Systemic and We Can Fix It

Why Things Don't Work: It's Systemic and We Can Fix It

Why Things Don't Work: It's Systemic and We Can Fix It

Why Things Don't Work: It's Systemic and We Can Fix It

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Overview

Why do we get almost everything wrong about Covid-19 policy; about passwords; about the Iraq War; about Xi Jinping, Putin and Western leadership; about low-fat diets; about wars against drugs and cancer; about the slave trade and racism; and about the cause of violence in places like Congo, Ethiopia, the Middle East, Ukraine, and Afghanistan? This book dives into the only scientific method for determining true root causes of dysfunction and conflict, based on system dynamics and complex adaptive systems anthropology (CASA). It then corrects massive disinformation spread by politicians, modern media, special interest groups, and their celebrity "experts".
This book clearly explains the new methodology of Human SystemicsTM for common people and why it's the most critical toolset to reverse the unconscionable loss of money and lives in pursuit of false agendas and myths of leadership elites worldwide. SYSTEMIC: A word widely used, yet rarely understood until now, and the key to a desperately-needed modern ethics linked to traditional values.
The underlying science of complexity and system dynamics sends rockets to mars, plans our military campaigns, plots our economic programs, and enables artificial intelligence. Yet we fail to use its power to find the real root causes of human behavior and fix those root causes. Why? In a world dominated today by well-intentioned yet misguided attempts to construct better social solutions and communities, one only finds false hopes and revolving-door programs.
This book develops the hidden and ignored methods of "SysIQ", the ability to see things systemically and create truly "systainable" policies. Clearly defining those, we then demonstrate programs with provable outcomes that finally use our talents and tax dollars that everyone can afford and benefit from, not just the few.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798989735419
Publisher: Coflict LLC
Publication date: 01/30/2024
Pages: 444
Sales rank: 263,701
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Brock Hotaling was born in Libertyville, Illinois and grew up in Okemos, Michigan. He matriculated to Michigan State University as a double major in nuclear physics and international relations. With his rather useless degree, he decided to pursue a life's dream of bringing hard science rigor to the social sciences, in particular finding universal underlying causes of human conflict and synergy. While living and working for years in 25 countries on four continents as a systems architect and strategic analyst, he developed a more rigorous approach to cloaked ethnography using techniques from dynamical systems theory, object-oriented design, and Bayesian statistics. This enabled a deeper understanding of human behavioral patterns, enabling models with much greater metrics and forecasting for everything from relationships to African palaver to corporate team-building. As a proud father, expert in technology and financials, and basketball and soccer coach, he "ate his own cooking" by testing his methods on friends, family and colleagues with increasingly better results (he assumes). His quest for forgiveness for anyone he may have offended along the way is annotated in Appendix: Dedications in this somewhat autobiographical book, exposing his three disintegrated personas, such as the notorious Memekiller, slayer of systemically stupid memes.

'Dr. Foundalis, the author of the Appendix: Cognition, was born in Edessa, a small town in Macedonia, which, as all of us know, is a region of northern Greece. He has no religion, no profession, no income, no expectations. But he does have wonderful children. He studied at the computer science department of Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A. His research has been in cognitive science; specifically, in visual pattern recognition, and the Bongard Problems. He thinks his life would be very dull if he didn’t have the chance to learn also about astronomy, biology (and creationism), classic literature, cognition, geology, language, math, philosophy, physics, religion, as well as about some social issues.
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