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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 — 53,840 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 — 1,409,723 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 — 124,629 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 — 11,096 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 — 99,837 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 — 613,634 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
“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
“An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.”
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