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Systems Thinking
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Systems Thinking


Ackoff, Russel, On Purposeful Systems ,Aldine Press, 1972

Ashby, Ross, Design For a Brain, John Wiley, 1952

Bateson, Gregory, Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Ballantine, 1972

Bateson, Gregory, Mind and Nature, Bantam, 1972

Beer, Stafford, Platform For Change, John Wiley 1975

Bertalanffy, Ludwig von, Perspectives on General Systems Theory, Braziller, 1975

Booth, Linda, The systems thinking playbook, I and II, (available from boothli@MIT.EDU

Boulding, Kenneth E., The World as a Total System, Sage Publications, 1985

Checkland, Peter, Systems Thinking, Systems Practice, John Wiley, 1981

Checkland, Peter and Howell, Sue, Information, Systems and Information Systems, John Wiley, 1998

Churchman, C., The Systems Approach and its Enemies, Basic Books, 1979

Edelman, Gerald. Bright Air, Brilliant Fire, Allen Lane, 1992

Forrester, Jay, Industrial Dynamics, Productivity Press, 1991

Forrester, Jay, Principles of Systems, Productivity Press, 1990

Goodman Michael, Study Notes in System Dynamics, MIT Press, 1974

Kauffman, Stuart, At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self Organization and Complexity, Oxford University Press, 1995

Meadows, Donella, and Meadows, Dennis Limits to Growth, Signet, 1972

Meadows, Donella, Meadows, Dennis, and Randers, Jorgen, Beyond the Limits, Earthscan Publications, 1992

Roberts, Nancy, et al., Introduction to Computer Simulation, Productivity Press, 1983

Scott-Morgan, Peter, The Accelerating Organization, McGraw-Hill, 1997

Senge Peter, The Fifth Discipline, Doubleday, 1990

Senge Peter, et al., The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, Doubleday, 1994

Wheatley, Margaret J., Leadership and the New Science, Brett-Koehler, 1992


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