Just about every little thing on this planet has a system functioning behind it, whether it is something such as the life of an insect or managing a successful business. Many people overlook the importance of these systems and never really think too deeply behind them. Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy, developed the General System Theory, which he used to explain the behavior of a variety of complex, organized systems.  Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy explained his rationale behind “building a science of social systems is based on the assumption that social organizations are like living organisms in the sense that both display wholeness, interact with their environment, exhibit strategies of self-maintenance, and experience cycles of birth, growth, maturity and decline”. [1] His idea of a general system insights into biological, behavioral, social and epistemological domains, while fighting specifically against the reductionist approaches and the mechanist interpretations that dehumanize human beings through robotomorphism, zoomorphism, scientism and other narrow-minded and shortsighted assumptions that have been used extensively by people without realizing that it is impossible and improper to simplify the complexity inherent to whatever human concern. [1]  Through behavioristic psychology and the ideas of Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy, leading personality theorists developed many new concepts, one of the most interesting being human nature. A man is portrayed as a computer, an animal, or an infant. His entire life is based upon things such as the genes passed down by his parents, instincts, mishaps, early conditioning, and cultural and social adaptations. All of these attributes and events of ones life are things that shape how he or she will live their life. People do not choose what color eyes they have, what ethnicity they are, or if they have a mental disorder. These are all characteristics people are born with and can be traced back to relatives. “In the majority of our models of personality, there are no provisions for creativity, and no fitting recognition of the power of ideals." [2] This is a continuous cycle through generation to generation.  Over the past century, American psychology was taken over by the concept of the model of man as robot, which has been greatly criticized. It has remained dominant, as it serves as a foundation for behavioral engineering in commercial, economic and political propaganda; the escalating economy of the 'affluent society' could not exist without such manipulation. “By manipulating humans into homeostatically adjusted conformists, consumers and opportunists, the principles of academic psychology were identical with those of the commercialization of Man.” [2] All of these concepts of robotomorphism and scientism, which Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy was completely against, are creating an extremely narrow-minded society. These people are physically and theoretically dissecting these systems into isolated elements and are destroying systemic properties.  Systems exist everywhere around us, without many people realizing. Each system is dependant upon certain circumstances and conditions. This has allowed “scholars and scientists to make sense of system characteristics such as wholeness, differentiation, order, equifinality, progression and others.” [3] It is to one’s advantage to expand some basic understanding of how systems work. One can more efficiently care for patients, families and communities when they are able to comprehend the explanation behind things. Understanding systems can also allow one to produce more effective changes in his or her business once they able to step back and think about how best to achieve this success within their workplace system.