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This reflects the topics I'd like to touch on eventually... No guarantees that things will develop as expected. Things will progress depending on what readers ask and would like me to touch on, not necessarily following the order below.

If you find this list confusing, it's because my thoughts lend themselves naturally to being organized in a tree shape. If anybody can think of a way of making it clearer, I'd be immensely grateful.

1. Introduction to (eco)systems thinking

1.1. Trust the system, not the people

2. The wheel of life: the basic self-controlling loop

2.1. The steps of the wheel of life

2.1.1. Watch

2.1.2. Think

2.1.2.1. Making lists: sorting out eggs in different baskets
2.1.2.2. What to think about second-hand information

2.1.3. Feel (evaluate)

2.1.3.1. Wants and needs

2.1.3.2. Different kinds of motives

2.1.3.3. Trade-offs

2.1.4. Choose

2.1.5. Do

2.2. A hundred ways of doing right and a million ways of doing wrong

2.3. The long run

2.4. What makes problems difficult

2.4.1. Why things go wrong: Rational reasons

2.4.1.1. Prisoner's dilemma

2.4.2. Why things go wrong: Emotional reasons

2.4.1.1. Double bind

2.4.3. Wicked problems and super-wicked problems

2.4.4. Steps to change

3. Networks

3.1. How to think about networks: who and what

3.1.1. Cultures are networks

3.2. How we see networks: the view from the node

3.2.1. Getting into somebody else's shoes

3.3. What's in a link? - or - Who are you?

3.3.1. Links and time

3.3.1.1. Strong and weak ties

3.3.2. Influence

3.3.2.1. People don't change their mind the way they are supposed to

3.3.2.2. Principles of influence

3.3.2.3. The balance of power

3.3.2.3.1. A lever or a bridge?

3.3.2.3.2. Ways of empowering people

3.3.2.4. Why do some people turn a deaf ear?

3.3.2.4.1. Communications breakdown: the cycle of silence

3.4. Kinds of networks

3.4.1. Random and scale-free networks

3.4.1.1. What is a hub?

3.4.2. How information spreads

3.4.2.1. Communication methods

3.4.2.1.1. Few-to-few (interactive)

3.4.2.1.2. Few-to-many (passive)

3.4.3. Creating and maintaining coordination

3.5. Mapping networks

3.5.1. Seeing what is not there

4. Working at different scales: from small to big

4.1. The hierarchy of life

4.1.1. What is a city?

4.1.1.1. Individual, local, global actions

4.2. Who should be in a group?

4.2.1. The difference between good and bad groups

4.3. Magic numbers

4.3.1. Magic numbers for small groups

4.3.2. Magic numbers for big groups

4.3.3. Tipping points

4.4. The wheel of life in groups

4.4.1. Steps to change in a group

4.4.2. Decision-making in groups

4.4.2.1. Independent and full group decisions

4.4.3. Planning: loops within loops

4.4.3.1. The levels of a plan: aligment

4.4.3.1.1. Activity

4.4.3.1.2. Result

4.4.3.1.3. The plan

4.4.3.1.4. The goals

4.4.3.2. The bones, the flesh and the dress

4.3.3.2.1. Rules of thumb for design

4.4.3.3. Motives in a group

4.4.3.3.1. The right kind of encouragement

4.4.3.3.2. Effort, result and personal goals

4.4.3.3.3. Eliminate negative and create positive

4.4.4. Characteristics of a good team

4.5. An effective group inside its environment

5. Key concepts: The forest branches join at the top

5.1. Connectivity

5.1.1. What happens when connectivity goes up?
5.1.2. What happens when connectivity goes down?

5.2. Complexity

5.2.1. What happens when complexity goes up?
5.2.2. What happens when complexity goes down?

5.3. Resilience
5.3.1. How does resilience go up?
5.3.2. How does resilience go down?

5.4. Connectivity, complexity and resilience in examples

5.5. Connectivity and complexity in networks

5.6. Connectivity, complexity, resilience and cycles

5.6.1. The wheel of life drawn with axes
5.6.2. Cyclical sucession (or adaptive cycle)
5.7. Death: when the wheel of life stops