Systems Thinking


Thinking In Systems: A Primer
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
Systems Thinking For Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity - A Platform for Designing Business Architecture
The Systems Thinking Playbook: Exercises to Stretch and Build Learning and Systems Thinking Capabilities
Complexity: A Guided Tour
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
The Art of Systems Thinking: Essential Skills for Creativity and Problem Solving
Systems Thinking, Systems Practice
Business Dynamics
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization
Deep Listening by Emily KasrielThe Focus Equation by Thinker MindsetA Blessed Olive Tree by Zain HashmiThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. CoveyHow to Thrive in the 21st Century - By Avoiding Porn and Othe... by Havard Mela
Full Self-Actualization Reading List
31 books — 27 voters
Sprint by Jake KnappReinventing Organizations by Frederic LalouxLinked by Albert-László BarabásiThe Beginning of Infinity by David DeutschWhere Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
Shifting Paradigms: Agile-related
63 books — 4 voters

EXSTATICA Self-Help Essentials by FrankImpermanence by Daniel FrisanoDeath by T.N.T.Esalen by Jeffrey J. KripalThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
New Age studies
168 books — 81 voters
Thinking in Systems by Donella H. MeadowsThe Fifth Discipline by Peter M. SengeSystems Thinkers by Magnus RamageThe Systems View of Life by Fritjof CapraScale by Geoffrey B. West
Thinking on Systems Thinking
52 books — 12 voters

Roger Spitz
Theoretically, artificial superintelligence could possess humanity’s combined cognitive capacity. In contrast, superstupidity could take on multiple features, including overreliance on the underlying “intelligence” of these systems. For instance, believing that AI can be a proxy for our own understanding and decision-making as we delegate more power to algorithms is superstupid. Perhaps AI is also superstupid, and may cause mistakes, wrong decisions, or misalignment.
Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

Yukito Ayatsuji
In the end, people are only able to think and feel within the limits of the "system", the specific culture of the society they belong to. Notions like artistic value and beauty are inevitably shackled by that system, and even the words we use are dictated by it. ...more
Yukito Ayatsuji, The Mill House Murders

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