There's actually a lot of great material available, here are a few of my favorites:

Articles:

- Introduction to Systems Thinking (https://thesystemsthinker.com/introduction-to-systems-thinki...)

- Tools of a Systems Thinker (https://medium.com/disruptive-design/tools-for-systems-think...)

- The Mythical Leverage Point (https://blog.kumu.io/the-mythical-leverage-point-d582ce4b8b4...)

Videos:

- Peter Senge Introduction to Systems Thinking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXdzKBWDraM)

- I Used To Be A Systems Thinker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ymt_TbNNwE)

- The (Failed) Promised of Systems Thinking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=614&v=aelqgvFXGi...)

- Systems Practice Mindsets (https://vimeo.com/212281432)

Courses:

- +Acumen Systems Practice Course (https://www.plusacumen.org/courses/systems-practice)

Books:

- Thinking In Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows (https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp...)

- Fifth Discipline Fieldbook (https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Discipline-Fieldbook-Strategies...)

- Systems Thinking for Social Change (https://www.amazon.com/Systems-Thinking-Social-Change-Conseq...)

Articles on Leading Systems Change:

- Dawn of Systems Leadership (https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_dawn_of_system_leadershi...)

- Acting and Thinking Systemically (https://thesystemsthinker.com/acting-and-thinking-systemical...)

- Transforming the Systems Movement (https://thesystemsthinker.com/transforming-the-systems-movem...)

Relevant Tools and Websites:

- Kumu (https://kumu.io) - Web-based tool for building interactive system maps.

- The Systems Thinker (https://thesystemsthinker.com/) - Complete library of all "The Systems Thinker" publications over the past 30 years

(Disclosure: I'm a cofounder of Kumu)

Thanks for sharing this so openly and honestly and kudos to you for recognizing this before it was too late and pushing our team to adjust. It's a great reminder of the additional struggles faced by those in a startup with little ones. There's far too many startup cultures where working there means missing out on entire parts of your kids' lives. And once those years are gone, they're gone...

Great idea loganu. Have you seen stated amounts for many of the people on this map? It's easy for us to add and scale by that as another option if we have the data.

Thanks for the link nthitz. In the end we ended up making an arbitrary choice of where to cut off the map. I was blown away by how many celebrities actually participated (I'd guess the actual map would be 10-20x even the Fastco one). If someone ever pulls the data together for all of it we'd love to power the larger visualization.

Thanks Kelly!

Thanks chairmankaga! We compiled it over the past week. Probably took between 10-20 hours to get all the connections, then grab images and videos for each person. More information on building with Kumu is available here: http://help.kumu.io

If you're looking for other example to help spark some creativity, check out our explore page: https://kumu.io/explore

Thanks ASquare!

Cofounder of Kumu here. A little about this map - we normally work with social networks and systems maps but thought it could be fun to map the ALS challenge since the format naturally built its own network based on the nominations. It's also fun to watch some of the celebs in their own element, often with their families. Hope you enjoy and this saves a bit of time searching for videos!