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Systems Thinking Books
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Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,629 ratings — published 2008
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 3.93 — 35,911 ratings — published 1990
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Silver Anniversary Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 3.94 — 671 ratings — published 1975
The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,022 ratings — published 1977
Systems Thinking For Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 3.78 — 823 ratings — published 2015
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.30 — 771 ratings — published 2014
Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity - A Platform for Designing Business Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 3.95 — 286 ratings — published 1999
The Systems Thinking Playbook: Exercises to Stretch and Build Learning and Systems Thinking Capabilities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.07 — 175 ratings — published 2010
Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,482 ratings — published 2009
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,745 ratings — published
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,459 ratings — published 2017
Systems Thinking, Systems Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.14 — 111 ratings — published 1981
The Art of Systems Thinking: Essential Skills for Creativity and Problem Solving (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 3.86 — 427 ratings — published
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,130 ratings — published 1994
Business Dynamics (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.38 — 310 ratings — published 1999
Growing Wings on the Way: Systems Thinking for Messy Situations (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.40 — 35 ratings — published 2011
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.07 — 82,419 ratings — published
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System (pdf)
by (shelved 15 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.68 — 149 ratings — published 1999
Systems Thinkers (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.18 — 39 ratings — published 2009
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.09 — 56,957 ratings — published 2012
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Manager's Guide to Applying Systems Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 3.82 — 133 ratings — published 2002
The Limits to Growth (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.17 — 857 ratings — published
Systems Thinking Made Simple: New Hope for Solving Wicked Problems (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.11 — 114 ratings — published 2015
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,125 ratings — published 1992
Learning For Action: A Short Definitive Account of Soft Systems Methodology, and its use for Practitioners, Teachers and Students (No Longer Used)
by (shelved 11 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 3.80 — 46 ratings — published 2006
Out of the Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,559 ratings — published 1982
Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,636 ratings — published 2004
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,246,478 ratings — published 2018
Critical Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.22 — 32 ratings — published
The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts (Audiobook)
by (shelved 10 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.07 — 10,095 ratings — published 2018
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,694 ratings — published 1998
The Systems Thinker: Essential Thinking Skills (The Systems Thinker Series, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 3.47 — 342 ratings — published
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.17 — 15,415 ratings — published 2017
Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 3.89 — 203 ratings — published 1995
On Complexity (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.13 — 90 ratings — published 2008
Systems Thinking for Curious Managers: With 40 New Management F-Law (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 3.99 — 102 ratings — published 2010
The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,787 ratings — published 1994
Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 3.89 — 62 ratings — published 2003
Ackoff's Best: His Classic Writings on Management (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.20 — 81 ratings — published 1999
Introduction to Systems Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 3.80 — 30 ratings — published 1999
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 3.73 — 7,471 ratings — published 1986
The Tao of Systems Thinking: Exploring the Parallels Between Eastern Mysticism and Systems Thinking (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 3.71 — 45 ratings — published
General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Revised Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 3.87 — 431 ratings — published 1969
Principles of Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.47 — 19 ratings — published 1968
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,552 ratings — published 2001
Freedom from Command and Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.17 — 239 ratings — published 2003
The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.18 — 700 ratings — published 1991
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,565 ratings — published 2019
Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.21 — 985 ratings — published 2005
Quality Software Management: Systems Thinking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as systems-thinking)
avg rating 4.30 — 102 ratings — published 1991
“Purposes are deducted from behavior, not from rhetoric or stated goals.”
― Thinking In Systems: A Primer
― Thinking In Systems: A Primer
“It is important to address the (mis)perception that systems research is non-humanistic. To offer a short response, it is vital to remember that our civilization — a society where people live in towns or cities, communicate by writing, and build monumental structures , is a system connected by our relationships. The subject of systems cannot be more human.”
― 5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy: System-wide Transformation Methods to Close the Compliance Gap and Advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
― 5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy: System-wide Transformation Methods to Close the Compliance Gap and Advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
