"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."
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.