Thinking in Systems

A Primer

Donella H. Meadows, Diana Wright | 4.38 | 7,910 ratings and reviews

Recommended by Tobi Lütke, Kate Raworth, Mira Kirshenbaum, and 3 others. See all reviews

Ranked #3 in System Design, Ranked #5 in Environmental Studies — see more rankings.

Meadows’ Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute’s Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life.

Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system... more

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Tobi Lütke Founder & CEO/Shopify[Tobi Lütke recommended this book on the podcast "The Knowledge Project".] (Source)

Kate Raworth It was a real revelation for me to discover such a different approach to thinking and analysing challenges. (Source)

Mira Kirshenbaum A nice overview of how initial conditions lead to patterns that determine what the relationship feels like to the people in it (Source)

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