And that we should look at the whole situation to see new opportunities and develop the system collective activities of his subjects as a whole. The king laughed at the sage and continue to put out fires and prop up the falling roof. A wise man went to the king of a neighboring state, and, after brief reflection principle found solution of similar problems, he suggested to the king to increase his power and influence of its neighbors to the people to build roads and create conditions for the smooth implementation of trade within his kingdom. Through some time the state began to flourish, and captured the territory of the king who refused to listen to the sage. Refusal of a systemic approach, a desire to break the situation in a holistic set of independent tasks and find a solution for each of them separately – so you can be called a defect described thinking.
Analyzing the five described in this text defective thinking, I want to emphasize what is common to characterize them all. These defects demonstrate that the continuous process of thinking, the vast majority of owners and top managers of the business is missing. By a continuous process of thinking I see constant activity in the area of thinking, divided into the following steps: 1) The situation in general, the ability to see and describe the situation as a system of interacting subjects, conditions, rules, regulations, trends, and objective circumstances. 2) A clear definition of self-interest in the situation, as well as the interests of other participants. 3) Articulating own goal in the situation, as well as those of other participants. 4) The definition of the project, plan and program of action to achieve goals. 5) Choice for each of the methods and means for its enforcement, by itself, taking action, the analysis of local results of each action.