Complex Systems


Complexity: A Guided Tour
Chaos: Making a New Science
Thinking In Systems: A Primer
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
A New Kind of Science
How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality
Thinking In Systems by Donella H. MeadowsThe Systems View of Life by Fritjof CapraSystems Thinking For Social Change by David Peter StrohThe Fifth Discipline by Peter M. SengeThe Limits to Growth by Donella H. Meadows
Systems Thinking
52 books — 17 voters

James Gleick
In daily life, the Lorenzian quality of sensitive dependence on initial conditions lurks everywhere. A man leaves the house in the morning thirty seconds late, a flowerpot misses his head by a few millimeters, and then he is run over by a truck. Or, less dramatically, he misses a bus that runs every ten minutes—his connection to a train that runs every hour. Small perturbations in one’s daily trajectory can have large consequences. A batter facing a pitched ball knows that approximately the sam ...more
James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

Roger Spitz
With complex, systemic challenges, there are no individual winners. Collectively addressing these means we all win; failure means we all lose.
Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

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