Senge suggested that the best way to deal with complex systems is with systems thinking: “Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns of change rather than static snapshots.”’ He went on to say, “Seeing only individual actions andmissing the structure underlying the actions…lies at the root of our powerlessness in complex situations.”
Drucker recommended that you should not only set your priorities, you should also set your posteriorities, or that which you will not do.

Cognitive psychologists Michelens Chi, Marshall Farr, and Robert Glaser have defined an expert as somebody who has a great deal of highly organized domain-specific knowledge, where a domain is a network of knowledge, such as chess, mathematics, or music. For experts, knowledge has morphed from many pieces into a unified whole. An expert can start with any piece of knowledge and explain how it fits with every other piece.