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Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 264 times as systems)
avg rating 4.18 — 24,437 ratings — published 2008
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 36,264 ratings — published 1990
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as systems)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,086 ratings — published 1977
Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as systems)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,660 ratings — published 2009
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 673 ratings — published 1975
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as systems)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,731 ratings — published 2017
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as systems)
avg rating 4.29 — 807 ratings — published 2014
Systems Thinking For Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as systems)
avg rating 3.78 — 881 ratings — published 2015
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as systems)
avg rating 4.10 — 59,583 ratings — published 2012
Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as systems)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,343 ratings — published
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as systems)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,866 ratings — published 1972
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as systems)
avg rating 4.03 — 42,051 ratings — published 1987
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as systems)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,216 ratings — published 1992
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as systems)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,599 ratings — published 2001
Business Dynamics (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as systems)
avg rating 4.39 — 318 ratings — published 1999
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as systems)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,368 ratings — published 1998
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 85,891 ratings — published
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as systems)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,839 ratings — published 1979
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 462 ratings — published 2007
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,350 ratings — published 2003
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as systems)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,947 ratings — published 1996
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as systems)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,409,705 ratings — published 2018
The Systems Thinking Playbook: Exercises to Stretch and Build Learning and Systems Thinking Capabilities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as systems)
avg rating 4.09 — 180 ratings — published 2010
The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts (Audiobook)
by (shelved 17 times as systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 10,932 ratings — published 2018
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 17 times as systems)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,558 ratings — published 1977
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as systems)
avg rating 3.96 — 124,628 ratings — published 2007
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as systems)
avg rating 3.88 — 448 ratings — published 1969
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,014 ratings — published 2019
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as systems)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,456 ratings — published 1995
Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity - A Platform for Designing Business Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 288 ratings — published 1999
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as systems)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,735 ratings — published 1992
Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as systems)
avg rating 4.39 — 46 ratings — published
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as systems)
avg rating 4.69 — 11,095 ratings — published 2015
Introduction to Systems Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as systems)
avg rating 4.10 — 146 ratings — published 1991
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as systems)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,513 ratings — published 1972
System Design Interview – An insider's guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,584 ratings — published 2020
Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 3.99 — 792 ratings — published 1948
The E-myth Revisited (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 4.06 — 99,836 ratings — published 1985
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 4.04 — 77,275 ratings — published 2009
Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 3.90 — 210 ratings — published 1995
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as systems)
avg rating 4.15 — 54,104 ratings — published 2024
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as systems)
avg rating 3.51 — 512 ratings — published 2014
The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as systems)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,739 ratings — published 1978
Social Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as systems)
avg rating 4.17 — 252 ratings — published 1995
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,279 ratings — published 2002
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as systems)
avg rating 3.91 — 32,867 ratings — published 2018
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as systems)
avg rating 4.17 — 613,633 ratings — published 2011
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 10 times as systems)
avg rating 4.08 — 73,479 ratings — published 2001
The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as systems)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,779 ratings — published 2006
Signals and Boundaries: Building Blocks for Complex Adaptive Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as systems)
avg rating 3.89 — 102 ratings — published 2012
“It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it.”
― Commitment
― Commitment
“We can't get outside the aura. We're part of the aura. We're here, we're now.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
