Nothing Exists in Isolation
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It begins with something many people in professional life will recognise.
You’re dealing with a set of problems that each look manageable on their own.
Each one has a logical explanation.
Each one has a straightforward fix.
But every solution seems to create new problems somewhere else.
And gradually, something becomes clear.
The problems are not separate.
And solving them one by one is no longer enough.
That is where Mike’s story begins.
He’s a highly respected operations manager — known for solving problems quickly, efficiently, and reliably under pressure.
But the same pattern keeps repeating.
Every solution he implements seems to create two new problems somewhere else.
And he’s beginning to realise something unsettling.
He isn’t dealing with separate crises.
He’s dealing with a system he hasn’t yet learned to see.
The Evelyn Practice: How to Develop Systems Thinking and Solve Complex WorkLife Problems draws on Taylor Jenkins Reid’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and a six-step framework built around the kinds of questions systems thinking asks of us in working life. Not when problems are obviously connected. In the moments when they keep returning, keep complicating each other — and where seeing the hidden architecture beneath them changes everything.
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