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Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as systems)
avg rating 4.18 — 23,880 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 — 59,121 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 — 85,240 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 — 53,516 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 — 1,382,075 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 — 51,997 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
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