Jay's Art of Systems Thinking
Jay BurgessA working introduction to thinking in systems. How to trace cause and effect, find the leverage points, and stop treating symptoms as problems.
About this book
You already think in systems. You just didn't have the word for it.
The same fight keeps happening, the same team problem keeps resurfacing no matter who gets replaced, the same bad habit keeps winning. Most of us react to each one as a fresh, isolated event, and stay stuck because of it.
Jay's Art of Systems Thinking is a short, practical field guide to seeing the structure underneath the events, so you can stop refighting the same fire.
Written for anyone who wants to think more clearly, not just engineers or executives.
What's inside
- How to move from blaming a person to mapping the structure that keeps producing the problem
- What feedback loops are and why the "obvious fix" so often makes things worse
- How to apply this thinking at work, in relationships, and in your own habits
- How to find the real leverage point instead of the easiest one
- The quieter, more personal side of systems thinking: patience, letting go of being right, and teaching others to see it too
- Publisher
- Revuity Press
- Publication date
- August 7, 2026
- Print length
- 74 pages
- Language
- English
- ASIN
- B0HDB4KWS1
Jay Burgess is an operations systems leader who uses forward deployed engineering, data science, analytics, and systems thinking to help businesses operate more effectively. He is Managing Director of Revuity Systems, an operations systems company that helps organizations diagnose where operations are breaking down, redesign the underlying process, and build and deploy the systems needed to make the work run better. Most recently, he built a production compliance and decision-support system for a regulated organization. Before that, 15+ years across Fortune 500 engagements at Walmart and Adobe. He holds an MBA and M.S. in Data Science from Eastern University, and an M.Ed. and B.A. from LMU.
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