There are 2 aspects to taking action. The inner aspect. And, the outer aspect.
Every action has an outer aspect, which is its context as a field of action. Every action field has boundaries which define its form. Every action field is populated with agents or actors who manipulate the action. Every action within the field is a small maneuver that has purpose in a bigger context. In the complete picture, from the overview perspective, every action is a part of a game. It could be pinball, baseball, operations management, the game of life, or anything in between.
We are the players. We play an inner game, as well as an outer game.
What are the practical consequences of this knowledge? In order to take effective action in the outside game, we need to understand the inner game.
To see action this way is to play from within. Action, like music, can be composed. What happens to us and around us is not necessarily arbitrary or intractably chaotic.
A system is a method for playing with the outside parameters by coordinating and sequencing them through the mechanism of a simplified set of intrinsic parameters. This is all driven by the action of the Mind.
History is the tale of how we have acted upon the world to bring order out of disorder. With computers we can not only engineer the World, we can engineer the Mind that engineers the World. This is what systems are about and why they lead to paradigm shifts.
