How do you design corporate structures and policies that are compatible with the growth objectives of your organization? This text addresses this crucial question and explains how managers actions shape the dynamic characteristics of a broad range of organizations. A reprint of the original text, Industrial Dynamics also contains numerous two-color graphs to help illustrate the concepts. Reprinted in 1999.
Reading this book is a struggle. Working with it over an extended period is a struggle. Both are worth it.
If you're already aware of and ready to learn more of systems thinking and system dynamics, then this is a classic. But this is no pageturner. It requires hard thinking.
Get through it and it will change how you view the world around you.
Used as supplemental reading by Prof. Dennis Meadows, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College for Introduction to System Dynamics course, Fall 1978.