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Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as systems)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,388 ratings — published 2008
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as systems)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,061 ratings — published 1977
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 36,117 ratings — published 1990
Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as systems)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,590 ratings — published 2009
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as systems)
avg rating 3.93 — 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 39 times as systems)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,645 ratings — published 2017
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as systems)
avg rating 4.29 — 800 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 — 866 ratings — published 2015
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as systems)
avg rating 4.10 — 58,677 ratings — published 2012
Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as systems)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,338 ratings — published
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as systems)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,844 ratings — published 1972
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as systems)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,546 ratings — published 1987
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as systems)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,573 ratings — published 2001
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as systems)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,181 ratings — published 1992
Business Dynamics (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as systems)
avg rating 4.38 — 315 ratings — published 1999
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 84,710 ratings — published
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as systems)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,221 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 — 3,322 ratings — published 2003
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as systems)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,132 ratings — published 1998
The Systems Thinking Playbook: Exercises to Stretch and Build Learning and Systems Thinking Capabilities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as systems)
avg rating 4.08 — 177 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 — 1,940 ratings — published 1996
The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts (Audiobook)
by (shelved 17 times as systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 10,676 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 — 1,359,778 ratings — published 2018
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 17 times as systems)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,499 ratings — published 1977
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as systems)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,331 ratings — published 2007
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,935 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 — 1,445 ratings — published 1995
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as systems)
avg rating 3.87 — 439 ratings — published 1969
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 4.23 — 1,726 ratings — published 1992
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as systems)
avg rating 4.69 — 10,873 ratings — published 2015
Introduction to Systems Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as systems)
avg rating 4.12 — 143 ratings — published 1991
System Design Interview – An insider's guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,458 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 3.98 — 778 ratings — published 1948
The E-myth Revisited (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 4.06 — 98,488 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 — 1,496 ratings — published 1972
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 4.04 — 76,456 ratings — published 2009
Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 3.91 — 209 ratings — published 1995
The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as systems)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,700 ratings — published 1978
Social Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as systems)
avg rating 4.17 — 252 ratings — published 1995
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as systems)
avg rating 4.16 — 50,310 ratings — published 2024
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as systems)
avg rating 4.17 — 601,680 ratings — published 2011
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as systems)
avg rating 3.51 — 503 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 — 72,295 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 — 1,761 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
Diversity and Complexity (Primers in Complex Systems)
by (shelved 10 times as systems)
avg rating 4.12 — 207 ratings — published 2010
Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as systems)
avg rating 4.06 — 653 ratings — published 1984
“ask . . . what it is about all-embracing 'systems' of thought that leads inexorably to all-embracing 'systems' of rule.”
― Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
― Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
“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
