This is a book about architecture, but it's really about what we'd call systems thinking - what he called patterns. If anyone else has suggestions (or anti-suggestions!) I'd be interested in hearing them.Įdited right after posting: another that should be beside Meadows' book on your shelf is Christopher Alexander's "A Pattern Language" from 1977. There are probably one or two others I should call out but don't have here. On the theoretical side just about anything by John Holland is great, but it's more on the complexity side than specifically the systems thinking side. On the scientific side, a recent one I've really enjoyed is Capra's "The Systems View of Life." Most of the book is biology, but its intro to systems thinking is solid. On the business side there are ones like Senge's Fifth Discipline, and a lot of others that are pretty fluffy and not very good.
There's also a big split between business and non-business focused books. Even Meadows' book, which was my introduction too, isn't all that applicable to real-world situations. Meadows A critical review by Edward Rose In the words of Daiana Wright, Editor of Meadows book Thinking in Systems the book Opens the minds ‘eyes’, to be able to see the world around each one of us in a more organized pattern. Donella Meadows’ engaging book, Thinking in Systems: A Primer (2008) looks at the composition of systems, their surprising and often counterintuitive behaviors, and the myriad ways we can interact with. Most simply aren't very good, and some IMO are terrible. A system is a set of interconnected things (people, cells, molecules, components, etc.) that produces a specific outcome over time. I've been through a lot of systems thinking books. Chiming in three months after the post was written, but as /u/juicyspace said, this sub isn't very active!
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