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Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as systems)
avg rating 4.18 — 22,801 ratings — published 2008
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as systems)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,054 ratings — published 1977
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 36,059 ratings — published 1990
Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as systems)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,552 ratings — published 2009
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 671 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 38 times as systems)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,574 ratings — published 2017
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as systems)
avg rating 4.30 — 787 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 34 times as systems)
avg rating 3.79 — 846 ratings — published 2015
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as systems)
avg rating 4.10 — 58,153 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 — 6,332 ratings — published
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as systems)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,823 ratings — published 1972
Chaos: Making a New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as systems)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,179 ratings — published 1987
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as systems)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,565 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 — 3,167 ratings — published 1992
Business Dynamics (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as systems)
avg rating 4.38 — 313 ratings — published 1999
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 83,962 ratings — published
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as systems)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,983 ratings — published 1998
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as systems)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,808 ratings — published 1979
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,314 ratings — published 2003
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 462 ratings — published 2007
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 — 174 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 — 1,934 ratings — published 1996
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as systems)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,329,641 ratings — published 2018
The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts (Audiobook)
by (shelved 16 times as systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 10,501 ratings — published 2018
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as systems)
avg rating 3.96 — 122,551 ratings — published 2007
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 15 times as systems)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,472 ratings — published 1977
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 — 1,439 ratings — published 1995
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as systems)
avg rating 3.87 — 438 ratings — published 1969
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,889 ratings — published 2019
Introduction to Systems Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as systems)
avg rating 4.14 — 139 ratings — published 1991
Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity - A Platform for Designing Business Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 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 13 times as systems)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,719 ratings — published 1992
Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 4.38 — 47 ratings — published
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 4.70 — 10,707 ratings — published 2015
Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 3.99 — 767 ratings — published 1948
The E-myth Revisited (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 4.07 — 97,652 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 — 1,482 ratings — published 1972
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 4.04 — 75,974 ratings — published 2009
Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as systems)
avg rating 3.90 — 208 ratings — published 1995
Social Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as systems)
avg rating 4.15 — 245 ratings — published 1995
System Design Interview – An insider's guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as systems)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,395 ratings — published 2020
Complexity: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as systems)
avg rating 3.51 — 499 ratings — published 2014
The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as systems)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,678 ratings — published 1978
The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as systems)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,755 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 — 208 ratings — published 2010
Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as systems)
avg rating 4.06 — 647 ratings — published 1984
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as systems)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,241 ratings — published 2002
Understanding Complexity
by (shelved 9 times as systems)
avg rating 4.15 — 901 ratings — published 2009
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as systems)
avg rating 4.13 — 16,562 ratings — published 2007
“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
“If biologists have ignored self-organization, it is not because self-ordering is not pervasive and profound. It is because we biologists have yet to understand how to think about systems governed simultaneously by two sources of order, Yet who seeing the snowflake, who seeing simple lipid molecules cast adrift in water forming themselves into cell-like hollow lipid vesicles, who seeing the potential for the crystallization of life in swarms of reacting molecules, who seeing the stunning order for free in networks linking tens upon tens of thousands of variables, can fail to entertain a central thought: if ever we are to attain a final theory in biology, we will surely, surely have to understand the commingling of self-organization and selection. We will have to see that we are the natural expressions of a deeper order. Ultimately, we will discover in our creation myth that we are expected after all.”
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