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Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 269 times as systems)
avg rating 4.17 — 24,941 ratings — published 2008
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 36,323 ratings — published 1990
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as systems)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,090 ratings — published 1977
Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as systems)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,690 ratings — published 2009
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as systems)
avg rating 3.93 — 676 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 42 times as systems)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,796 ratings — published 2017
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as systems)
avg rating 4.30 — 809 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 — 887 ratings — published 2015
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as systems)
avg rating 4.10 — 59,973 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 — 6,351 ratings — published
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as systems)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,886 ratings — published 1972
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as systems)
avg rating 4.03 — 42,258 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 — 3,223 ratings — published 1992
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as systems)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,604 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 — 7,485 ratings — published 1998
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as systems)
avg rating 4.28 — 54,111 ratings — published 1979
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 86,599 ratings — published 1984
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 463 ratings — published 2007
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,358 ratings — published 2003
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as systems)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,431,356 ratings — published 2018
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as systems)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,951 ratings — published 1996
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
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as systems)
avg rating 3.88 — 450 ratings — published 1969
The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts (Audiobook)
by (shelved 17 times as systems)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,063 ratings — published 2018
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure)
by (shelved 17 times as systems)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,582 ratings — published 1977
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as systems)
avg rating 3.96 — 125,296 ratings — published 2007
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,036 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 — 1,462 ratings — published 1995
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as systems)
avg rating 4.69 — 11,324 ratings — published 2015
Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as systems)
avg rating 3.99 — 797 ratings — published 1948
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
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as systems)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,526 ratings — published 1972
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as systems)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,741 ratings — published 1992
Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as systems)
avg rating 4.39 — 46 ratings — published
Introduction to Systems Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as systems)
avg rating 4.10 — 148 ratings — published 1991
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as systems)
avg rating 4.04 — 77,650 ratings — published 2009
The E-myth Revisited
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 4.06 — 101,138 ratings — published 1985
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 — 55,706 ratings — published 2024
System Design Interview – An insider's guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as systems)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,631 ratings — published 2020
The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as systems)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,758 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
Critical Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as systems)
avg rating 4.32 — 38 ratings — published
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as systems)
avg rating 3.91 — 33,099 ratings — published 2018
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as systems)
avg rating 4.16 — 619,276 ratings — published 2011
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as systems)
avg rating 3.52 — 513 ratings — published 2014
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 — 73,861 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 — 1,785 ratings — published 2006
“I try to tell them that all words are plastic. Word images begin to distort in the instant of utterance. Ideas imbedded in a language require that particular language for expression. This is the very essence of the meaning within the word exotic. See how it begins to distort?
Translation squirms in the presence of the exotic. The Galach which I speak here imposes itself. It is an outside frame of reference, a particular system. Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change.”
― God Emperor of Dune
Translation squirms in the presence of the exotic. The Galach which I speak here imposes itself. It is an outside frame of reference, a particular system. Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change.”
― God Emperor of Dune
“We can't impose our will on a system. We can listen to what the system tells us, and discover how its properties and our values can work together to bring forth something much better than could ever be produced by our will alone.”
― Thinking In Systems: A Primer
― Thinking In Systems: A Primer
