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Platform for Change
"Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world's most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his thinking with a flair that is unmatched. His writing is as much art as it is science. He is the most viable system I know."
― Dr Russell L Ackoff , The Institute for Interactive Management, Pennsylvania. USA This is a highly original book both in content and format. It presents thirteen 'arguments for change', these are linked by a personal commentary, and by a deeper, 'metalinguistic', commentary. Platform for Change is completely
self-contained, does not deal at all with the nature of viable systems, but is directed towards the hope that our
planet may yet remain viable--and the human race survive.
― Dr Russell L Ackoff , The Institute for Interactive Management, Pennsylvania. USA This is a highly original book both in content and format. It presents thirteen 'arguments for change', these are linked by a personal commentary, and by a deeper, 'metalinguistic', commentary. Platform for Change is completely
self-contained, does not deal at all with the nature of viable systems, but is directed towards the hope that our
planet may yet remain viable--and the human race survive.
475 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1975
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January 5, 2009
Must read if you want to understand the law of requisite variety, which you do.
October 12, 2017
Platform for Change is one of those books that I feel should be required reading, for scientists, politicians - everyone. Stafford Beer lays out issues (and more importantly) ways to confront and deal with those issues that still affect us to this day.
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