According to the Waters Foundation (2018), the "Habits of a Systems Thinker" exemplify 14 ways of thinking about how systems work and how certain actions can affect results seen over time. Although the traditional definition of a "habit" is the usual way of doing things, systems thinkers are not limited by routine ways of thinking. Instead, the following "habits" encourage adaptive thinking which, in turn, leads to the system thinker to appreciate new, emerging insights and multiple perspectives:

1. Seeks to understand the big picture
2. Observes how elements within systems change over time, generating patterns and trends
3. Recognizes that a system's structure generates its behavior
4. Identifies the circular nature of complex cause and effect relationships
5. Makes meaningful connections within and between systems
6. Changes perspectives to increase understanding
7. Surfaces and tests assumptions
8. Considers an issue fully and resists the urge to come to a quick conclusion
9. Considers how mental models affect current reality and the future
10. Uses an understanding of system structure to identify possible leverage actions
11. Considers short-term, long-term, and unintended consequences of actions
12. Pays attention to accumulations and their rates of change
13. Recognizes the impact of time delays when exploring cause and effect relationships
14. Checks results and changes actions if needed: "successive approximation"

Focusing on the way that a CMH's constituent parts interrelate and how systems work overtime and within the context of the organization as a whole. As is a systems thinker perspective response to each of the 14 Habits?