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Thinking in Systems: A Primer
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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
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Systems Thinkers
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The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
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Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
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Drift into Failure
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
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Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
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Systems Thinkers
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Systems Thinking Made Simple: New Hope for Solving Wicked Problems
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4.14 avg rating — 111 ratings
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The Art of Systems Thinking: Essential Skills for Creativity and Problem Solving
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3.86 avg rating — 423 ratings
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General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications
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The Limits to Growth
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The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for Our Time
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3.84 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Systems Approaches to Making Change: A Practical Guide
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Martin Reynolds (Editor)
3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The All New Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
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Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture
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3.94 avg rating — 285 ratings
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An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
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3.94 avg rating — 667 ratings
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Thinking in Promises: Designing Systems for Cooperation
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Mark Burgess (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Systems Thinking For Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results
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Introduction to Systems Thinking
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Systems Approaches to Managing Change: A Practical Guide: A Practical Guide
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Martin Reynolds (editor)
4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Grammar of Systems: From Order to Chaos & Back
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Patrick Hoverstadt (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings
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General Principles of Systems Design
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4.09 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Fractal Organization: Creating Sustainable Organizations with the Viable System Model
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Patrick Hoverstadt (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Active Regulation: General Systems Design Principles
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Rise of the Machines: the lost history of cybernetics
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Thomas Rid (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 452 ratings
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Passive Regulation: General Systems Design Principles
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4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness
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Anthony Chaney (Goodreads Author)
4.48 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Dynamic Systems for Everyone: Understanding How Our World Works
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3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life
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4.25 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Brain of the Firm
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4.30 avg rating — 121 ratings
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The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future
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4.14 avg rating — 132 ratings
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The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small
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3.99 avg rating — 1,014 ratings
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The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
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3.84 avg rating — 1,781 ratings
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Principles of Systems
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4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity - A Platform for Designing Business Architecture
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3.94 avg rating — 285 ratings
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The Systems Thinking Playbook: Exercises to Stretch and Build Learning and Systems Thinking Capabilities
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Linda Booth Sweeney (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Re-Creating the Corporation: A Design of Organizations for the 21st Century
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4.13 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers
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3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings
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General Systems Theory
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3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Systems Thinking: Coping with 21st Century Problems (Systems Innovation Book Series)
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3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Tracing Connections: Voices of Systems Thinkers
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3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Manager's Pocket Guide to Systems Thinking and Learning
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3.63 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Systems Thinking, Systems Practice
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Systems Thinking for Curious Managers: With 40 New Management F-Law
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Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World
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4.38 avg rating — 309 ratings
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Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Manager's Guide to Applying Systems Thinking
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3.82 avg rating — 131 ratings
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On Complexity
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The Systems Thinker: Essential Thinking Skills (The Systems Thinker Series, #1)
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3.48 avg rating — 338 ratings
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The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
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3.92 avg rating — 931 ratings
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