John Michael Harrison
The Systems Founder
How to Think in Systems to Build Smarter Products, Stronger Companies, and More Resilient Businesses in a Complex World
Ebook · 124 pages
See every book in the store ›- Use the mental models of Munger and Buffett
- Spot the five systems traps early
- Apply systems thinking to big global problems
About the book
Your company has a churn problem. You hire more support staff. Churn gets worse. Sound familiar?
Most founders solve today's fire and never ask what keeps starting fires in the first place. The Systems Founder teaches you to see the structure underneath the symptom - the stocks, flows, and feedback loops actually driving your results - so you stop re-solving the same problem every quarter.
Inside, you'll learn the exact mental models Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett used to build Berkshire Hathaway, the reinforcing loop Jeff Bezos diagrammed into Amazon's flywheel, the incentive trap that sank Wells Fargo, and the five systems traps that quietly wreck otherwise well-run companies. Then the same tools get turned outward - onto poverty, war, and the environment - so you see exactly how a support-ticket queue and a Nobel Prize-winning insight about famine run on the same underlying logic.
No fictional case studies. No invented statistics. Just real, documented history, turned into a working toolkit for founders, leaders, and anyone tired of fixing the same fire twice.
Stop firefighting. Start designing the system.
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