Short spoken excerpt from a YouTube video titled "Systemic Thinking = Success" (creator: David Jenyns). The speaker uses an automobile-parts thought experiment—picking the best engine, transmission, alternator from different cars and assembling them—to illustrate that individually optimal parts often won’t fit or work together; the main claim is that systemic thinking emphasizes integration and interoperability over isolated optimization.
A very simple example would be if you took one each of every make of automobile available in the United States and brought them together and had a group of engineers decide which one had the best engine, perhaps a Rolls Royce, which had the best transmission, which the best alternator, and for each part required for an automobile, found the best one available. If you then instructed the engineers to take those parts off the automobiles and assemble the best possible automobile out of all the best parts, you would not get an automobile. No. It would not run. No. The parts wouldn't fit. And that's the critical part about a fifth system. They'll not work together. So it's the working together that's the main contribution to systemic thinking, as opposed to working apart separately.
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