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Been reading about Systems Thinking lately. I think the command and control assumption comes from the influence of System Dynamics (Forrester, Meadows, Senge), which attempts to simulate the system. This seems to be a North American view of systems thinking due to the popularity of Systems Dynamics. But the European views have a focus on emergent behaviour and critically looking at hierarchies and power structures. Although Meadows emphasises 'dancing with systems' in contrast with controlling systems.