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A contemporary organization is becoming more and more complex and dynamic. Managing such an organization often requires new solutions in order to face the fast-expanding comprehensiveness in economy, politics and private life. Understanding complex connections between the elements of a system can remedy this situation. Therefore, when planning and making decisions a lot of factors should be taken into consideration and their interdependencies should be seen. Know-why methodology, thanks to which systems, their parts and interdependencies between these parts can be examined, may be used to understand the individual situation of a given organization. The central point of know-why methodology concerns presenting mutual interactions between factors in the form of a connections network. Such visualization enables scrutinizing these connections, analyzing them and conducting a simulation of their future state. Know-why thinking lets one recognize and diagnose key factors of success and explains, in a metasystemic way, what distinguishes and characterizes an efficient system. The efficient system model in the know-why methodology is the belief that in the process of evolution the system which attains success is the one which adapts in the longer period to its environment (integrates) but it also, for a longer or shorter time, changes together with the environment or in relation to competition (develops) (Neumann, 2008, p.15). Thus, an efficient organization finds itself in equilibrium between integration and development for a longer period. Such a way of thinking can be represented graphically by means of so-called space of events (larger parameter space), which R. Thom was using in his catastrophe theory (Thom, 1989, p.35). When presenting the know-why thinking by means of a wave one can investigate in which 'place' on the wave a given situation is presently 'located' and whether or not effective integration and development are occurring in this case. The organization's development can be looked at through the prism ...