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Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as systems)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,881 ratings — published 2008
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as systems)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,069 ratings — published 1977
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 36,184 ratings — published 1990
Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as systems)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,624 ratings — published 2009
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 672 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 40 times as systems)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,678 ratings — published 2017
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as systems)
avg rating 4.29 — 805 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 — 876 ratings — published 2015
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as systems)
avg rating 4.10 — 59,122 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 — 1,856 ratings — published 1972
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as systems)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,805 ratings — published 1987
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as systems)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,203 ratings — published 1992
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as systems)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,587 ratings — published 2001
Business Dynamics (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as systems)
avg rating 4.38 — 317 ratings — published 1999
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 85,241 ratings — published
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as systems)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,238 ratings — published 1998
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as systems)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,517 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 — 3,335 ratings — published 2003
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 — 179 ratings — published 2010
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as systems)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,946 ratings — published 1996
The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts (Audiobook)
by (shelved 17 times as systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 10,784 ratings — published 2018
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as systems)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,382,087 ratings — published 2018
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 17 times as systems)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,516 ratings — published 1977
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as systems)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,932 ratings — published 2007
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as systems)
avg rating 3.87 — 443 ratings — published 1969
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,974 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 — 1,450 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 — 289 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 4.23 — 1,731 ratings — published 1992
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as systems)
avg rating 4.69 — 10,969 ratings — published 2015
Introduction to Systems Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as systems)
avg rating 4.11 — 144 ratings — published 1991
System Design Interview – An insider's guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,523 ratings — published 2020
Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 4.39 — 46 ratings — published
Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 3.99 — 786 ratings — published 1948
The E-myth Revisited (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 4.06 — 99,115 ratings — published 1985
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,504 ratings — published 1972
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 4.04 — 76,843 ratings — published 2009
Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 3.91 — 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 4.16 — 51,998 ratings — published 2024
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as systems)
avg rating 3.51 — 507 ratings — published 2014
The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as systems)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,719 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 — 5,264 ratings — published 2002
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as systems)
avg rating 3.91 — 32,587 ratings — published 2018
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as systems)
avg rating 4.17 — 607,008 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 — 72,707 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 — 1,770 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
“Like casinos, large corporate entities have studied the numbers and the ways in which people respond to them. These are not con tricks - they're not even necessarily against our direct interests, although sometimes they can be - but they are hacks for the human mind, ways of manipulating us into particular decisions we otherwise might not make. They are also, in a way, deliberate underminings of the core principle of the free market, which derives its legitimacy from the idea that informed self-interest on aggregate sets appropriate prices for items. The key word is 'informed'; the point of behavioural economics - or rather, of its somewhat buccaneering corporate applications - is to skew our perception of the purchase to the advantage of the company. The overall consequence of that is to tilt the construction of our society away from what it should be if we were making the rational decisions classical economics imagines we would, and towards something else.”
― The Blind Giant
― The Blind Giant
“The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere, the plants and the soil, are all of roughly the same size. This means that large human disturbance of any one of these reservoirs will have large effects on all three. We cannot hope either to understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.”
― From Eros to Gaia
― From Eros to Gaia
