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The classic book on systems thinking, with more than half a million copies sold worldwide! This is a fabulous book. This book opened my mind and reshaped the way I think about investing. Forbes Perfect for fans of Kate Raworth, Rutger Bregman and Daniel Kahneman! The co-author of the international best-selling book Limits to Growth, Donella Meadows is widely regarded as a pioneer in the environmental movement and one of the world's foremost systems analysts . Her posthumously published Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. 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 critical for 21st-century life. Some of the biggest problems facing the world―war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation―are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous impact. While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner. No matter what industry or career you’re in, Thinking In Systems will bring clarity to the complicated, crowded and interdependent networks that make up the world today. Thinking in Systems helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.
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A woman whose pioneering work in the 1970s still makes front-page news, Donella Meadows was a scientist, author, teacher, and farmer widely considered ahead of her time. She was one of the world's foremost systems analysts and lead author of the influential Limits to Growth--the 1972 book on global trends in population, economics, and the environment that was translated into 28 languages and became an international bestseller. That book launched a worldwide debate on the earth's capacity to withstand constant human development and expansion. Twenty years later, she and co-authors Dennis Meadows and Jorgen Randers reported on their follow-up study in Beyond the Limits and a final revision of their research, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update, was published in 2004.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chelsea Green Publishing Co
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 14 September 2015
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ Illustrated
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1603580557
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1603580557
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 408 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 1.52 x 22.78 cm
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Donella H. Meadows was a pioneering environmental scientist, author, teacher, and farmer widely considered ahead of her time. She was one of the world's foremost systems analysts and lead author of the influential Limits to Growth. She was Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College, the founder of the Sustainability Institute and co-founder of the International Network of Resource Information Centers.

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Customers find the book brilliant and informative, particularly praising how it explains systems thinking through simple examples. One customer notes that it serves as a must-read for new age leaders.
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Customers praise the book's content, describing it as brilliant and interesting, with one customer noting it serves as a must-read for new age leaders.
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Excellent read! It raised more questions than answered but I think that is what great books are set to do.Read more
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Customers find the book informative, explaining systems thinking well and providing wealth of knowledge through simple examples. One customer notes it includes food-for-thought questions, while another highlights its detailed explanations of system parameters.
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Though the binding is fine, the font size is too small and compressed. The pages are thin and translucent making back side printing mix with the reading page text, further making reading difficult. If you are a 40+ person with weakening eye sight, you won't find reading this book in paperback format very comfortable.
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  • Yogesh Kulkarni
    5.0 out of 5 stars Greatest Asset
    Reviewed in India on 1 December 2024
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    Illustration of basic concepts of System Thinking in simple language and supported by examples. Ok One of the greatest books I have ever come across. Must read for new age leaders.
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  • Sanjay Aditya
    5.0 out of 5 stars A book to treasure for lifetime!
    Reviewed in India on 5 September 2020
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    A very concise book which explains the concept of System thinking, a very fundamental and yet less utilized approach to problem solving. It gives a very detailed explanation of system parameters, behaviours, Traps and opportunities, areas where we can leverage and finally it gives us a real time wisdom in approaching problems with a system mind.

    Systems approach can be used to solve problems that are personal, organisation or even situations that can benefit a country or even the world. It is a must read for every individual who is looking for a different approach to a problem or a state of stagnation and should be included in curriculum for any postgraduate program.
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  • P BHEEM REDDY
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  • Chandan Kumar
    5.0 out of 5 stars impactful and simple
    Reviewed in India on 9 January 2026
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    Simple, full of examples and impactful. Thought provoking. The ideas can be implemented in diverse disciplines from technical to economic to political to nature, etc.
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  • Sanyam Miglani
    5.0 out of 5 stars Bare essential for anyone looking to do good in the world
    Reviewed in India on 27 September 2023
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    If you think simply like I used to you could read this to expand your complex mind.

    The world is complex and to understand it better, we need to think in systems. This book explains systems thinking really well.
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  • MH
    3.0 out of 5 stars Paperback: font size too small, translucent pages
    Reviewed in India on 19 February 2023
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    Though the binding is fine, the font size is too small and compressed. The pages are thin and translucent making back side printing mix with the reading page text, further making reading difficult. If you are a 40+ person with weakening eye sight, you won't find reading this book in paperback format very comfortable.
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    Reviewed in India on 19 February 2023
    Though the binding is fine, the font size is too small and compressed. The pages are thin and translucent making back side printing mix with the reading page text, further making reading difficult. If you are a 40+ person with weakening eye sight, you won't find reading this book in paperback format very comfortable.
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  • saket
    5.0 out of 5 stars Must read for understanding the complexity of the world
    Reviewed in India on 11 February 2025
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    Excellent read! It raised more questions than answered but I think that is what great books are set to do.
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  • tech geek
    4.0 out of 5 stars Well it is what it is
    Reviewed in India on 15 September 2018
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    Well, this book can get you started with systems thinking; about feedback loops etc. But I would say the examples were weak to prove the benefit of it. I do agree with the points raised like we are accustomed to thinking linearly and we fail to understand the loopy consequences but that's because I myself observed that in the day to day life. Moreover, it didn't explain much about what a system is in the detail I got from some other book. But in general, in the market, there aren't good books on the subject. It was worth the money, but my expectations were too high lol.
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  • weilong
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book
    Reviewed in Japan on 12 July 2016
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    This primer lays out systems theory basics in a way that is easy to understand and fun to read. I have been going through the bibliography for some further reading.
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  • LionelC
    5.0 out of 5 stars Pensamento sistêmico 101
    Reviewed in Brazil on 4 March 2020
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    Livro base para quem quer identificar e entender sobre o tema.
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  • Hebah Bassam
    5.0 out of 5 stars كتاب ممتاز
    Reviewed in Saudi Arabia on 5 August 2022
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  • Rob Julian
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Smooth High Quality Primer
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 June 2012
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    As the title suggests, this book is written as a 'primer' into the subject, and it fulfils this function with ease and grace. It has the confident feel and logical evolved structure of a book written by someone who had completely mastered her subject and was well used to introducing these key ideas to her university students.

    There is a strong emphasis within the book on economic and environmental issues, which suited me well. I presume that the late author held quite progressive environmental views anyway, but systems thinking engenders and illuminates environmental concerns better than any other approach I can think of. The sections on resource depletion are both fascinating and frighteningly realistic. Although the issues and underlying thinking was not necessarily always original to systems thinking, the language (labelling of terms) and often counter-intuitive approach of systems modelling has got a lot to give in these two subjects.

    Concepts introduced such as information hierarchies and resilience, are both common sense and useful intellectual tools at the same time.

    "I think of resilience as a plateau upon which the system can play, performing its normal functions in safety. A resilient system has a big plateau, a lot of space over which it can wonder, with gentle, elastic walls that will bounce it back, if it comes near a dangerous edge. As a system loses its resilience, its plateau shrinks, and its protective walls become lower and more rigid, until the system is operating on a knife edge, likely to fall off in one direction or another whenever it makes a move. Loss of resilience can come as a surprise, because the system usually is paying much more attention to its play than to its playing space. One day it does something it has done a hundred times before and crashes."p78

    Looking back through it, the structure of this book is also very good as I have mentioned. It progresses in a logical way from the practicalities of systems thinking through to their implications and ends with some quite philosophical themes and advice. As another reviewer has mentioned, the appendix is actually useful in this book for a change, and seems in parts like a list of the key points of the book in a type of student revision notes form.

    The writing and citations in this book almost seem to suggest an air of bemused condescension on behalf of systems thinkers for their misdirected non systems thinking fellow man and the subsequent mistakes they make. Similar to the airy condescension of free market economists, but more justified and less disproved by recent events. There are many examples given which justify this air of superiority, and it seems to me to be an easy stance to buy into! Systems thinking does seem to contain the right tools for tackling the biggest contemporary problems.

    Anyone suggest a suitable follow up book on systems thinking? ( preferably one biased towards economics)

    Very accessible and recommended to all as an enjoyable introduction to this subject.
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  • Justin Soetendal
    5.0 out of 5 stars Verdiepend voor de studie van Alchemie
    Reviewed in the Netherlands on 8 August 2023
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    Hoe verder en meer ik het boek lees, des te meer ik erachter kom dat Thinking in Systems een verwetenschappelijkte en meer exoterische vorm en uitleg is van de essentie van Alchemie, in tegenstelling tot de meer traditionele, meer mystieke en esoterische verhandelingen over de essentie van Alchemie.

    Als je het weet, dan weet je het.
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