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    This document discusses different types of thinking models including static/inertial thinking, dynamic thinking, and entropic thinking. Static/inertial thinking views time as insignificant and resists change. Dynamic thinking sees time as a fundamental variable but views it without direction. Entropic thinking views time as having both duration and direction, and sees irreversible processes as moving from past to future. The document also contrasts linear thinking, where outputs are proportional to inputs, with nonlinear thinking where outputs have complex relationships to inputs and cannot be decomposed or summed in a simple way. Life processes and creative works are generally nonlinear.

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    This document discusses different types of thinking models including static/inertial thinking, dynamic thinking, and entropic thinking. Static/inertial thinking views time as insignificant and resists change. Dynamic thinking sees time as a fundamental variable but views it without direction. Entropic thinking views time as having both duration and direction, and sees irreversible processes as moving from past to future. The document also contrasts linear thinking, where outputs are proportional to inputs, with nonlinear thinking where outputs have complex relationships to inputs and cannot be decomposed or summed in a simple way. Life processes and creative works are generally nonlinear.

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    This document discusses different types of thinking models including static/inertial thinking, dynamic thinking, and entropic thinking. Static/inertial thinking views time as insignificant and resists change. Dynamic thinking sees time as a fundamental variable but views it without direction. Entropic thinking views time as having both duration and direction, and sees irreversible processes as moving from past to future. The document also contrasts linear thinking, where outputs are proportional to inputs, with nonlinear thinking where outputs have complex relationships to inputs and cannot be decomposed or summed in a simple way. Life processes and creative works are generally nonlinear.

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    This document discusses different types of thinking models including static/inertial thinking, dynamic thinking, and entropic thinking. Static/inertial thinking views time as insignificant and resists change. Dynamic thinking sees time as a fundamental variable but views it without direction. Entropic thinking views time as having both duration and direction, and sees irreversible processes as moving from past to future. The document also contrasts linear thinking, where outputs are proportional to inputs, with nonlinear thinking where outputs have complex relationships to inputs and cannot be decomposed or summed in a simple way. Life processes and creative works are generally nonlinear.

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    STRATEGIC THINKING (II)

    Prof.Dr.Dr.Dr.H.C. Constantin Bratianu


    Faculty of Business Administration
    Academy of Economic Studies
    Bucharest, Romania

    Inertial thinking

    STATIC / INERTIAL THINKING


    The simplest model of thinking
    TIME is not included in this model
    Things and events are almost the same. They do not
    change, or change is not significant
    Think of Pyramids. Same image anytime
    When things do not change we get a feeling of
    security, since we can control events
    Static or inertial thinking opposes any change. It is
    like a resistance

    DYNAMIC THINKING
    Time is a fundamental variable
    Time has only an extensive dimension, measured as
    duration (in seconds, minutes, hours, days, etc.)
    That means that in this model, time has no direction
    It is actually the physical time
    Things and events change in time. Processes
    develop in time
    Processes are reversible
    For reversible processes time direction is not
    important

    V=S/T

    T=S/V

    ENTROPIC THINKING
    Time is a fundamental variable characterized by:
    duration and direction
    Duration = quantitative dimension (seconds,
    minutes, hours, etc.)
    Direction = qualitative dimension (past, present,
    future)
    For irreversible processes time has direction
    past >>> present >>> future
    Entropy is a measure of irreversibility
    Entropic thinking is the most powerful thinking
    model from time point of view

    Time observer
    metaphor

    Future

    The observer is
    moving
    Event 3

    Event 2
    Event 1

    Past

    I shall come to you next week.

    Time observer
    metaphor

    Future

    Time is moving
    Event 3

    Event 2
    Event 1

    Past

    Time flies by
    Time for action has
    arrived

    What is the taste of the Big Mac?

    Taste of bread

    Taste of meat
    Taste of salad

    Taste of bread

    Taste of meat

    Taste of cheese

    Taste of bread

    Chicken soup with vegetables

    LINEAR AND
    NONLINEAR
    THINKING

    Sagrada Familia, Barcelona


    Antonio Gaudi

    Manhattan, New York

    The Wall Street, New York

    Opera din Sydney

    Hundertwasser, Viena

    LINEAR THINKING
    representation
    The
    Input (X)

    Process
    constant (K)

    Output (Y)

    Y = kX
    Where K is a process constant.

    The output is proportional with the input.

    LINEAR THINKING (I)


    Outputs are proportional with inputs
    Processes are described by linear equations
    Linear thinking is the most frequently used approximation
    in our daily life
    In linear thinking one sequence of any activity starts only
    when the previous sequence ends
    Complex problems can be decomposed into simpler
    problems. Each simple problem can be solved and got a
    solution. By assembling all of these simple solutions we
    get the solution of the initial complex problem.
    In linear thinking we can sum up objects or events and get
    the final result

    LINEAR THINKING (II)


    Measuring systems are based on linear thinking
    E.g.
    5 kg apples x 2 $/kg = $ 10
    2 kg + 7 kg = 9 kg
    Budgetary salaries are based on linear thinking
    E.g.
    40 hours x 5 $/hour = $ 200
    Democracy is based on linear thinking
    Language is based on linear thinking
    In Europe, getting university Diplomas is based on
    linear thinking

    NONLINEAR THINKING (I)


    Life processes, natural processes, social processes are
    not linear
    For instance, biology demonstrates that people dont
    have qualities whose values to be proportional with
    their age. Just think of the situation in which the
    tallness of a person would be such a quality
    Outputs are related to inputs by nonlinear equations, of
    different forms
    E.g. Y = a + bx + cx + dx
    Y = log x
    Scientific discoveries, Engineering innovations,
    A scientific discovery cannot be proportional with any
    other entity

    NONLINEAR THINKING (II)


    Intellectual work, artistic performance and knowledge
    processing are strongly nonlinear processes
    For nonlinear processes summation is not valid
    Complex problems cannot be decomposed into simpler
    problems since problems will change their nature
    For nonlinear processes integration is the most
    important characteristic (e.g. Big Mac and a chicken
    soup)
    Friendship, love, happiness, excellence, performance,
    quality etc. are strongly nonlinear

    The butterfly effect


    If a butterfly is producing a perturbation of the air in
    New York, we may have a tsunami in Tokyo.

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