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Thinking in Systems

De : Donella H. Meadows
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    In the years following her role as the lead author of the international best seller, Limits to Growth - the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet - Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. 

    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 listeners 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 failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking. 

    While listeners will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds listeners to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner. 

    In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, Thinking in Systems helps listeners avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions. 

    PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. 

    ©2008 Sustainability Institute (P)2018 Chelsea Green Publishing

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    • Ana
    • 19/09/2023

    A lire ou écouter !

    Excellent ! Non seulement le travail de recherche au tour des systèmes mais aussi la lecture du texte. Reste d’actualité malgré le temps passé depuis sa publication.

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    Deep yet accessible

    An entertaining approach to systems thinking - this should be a required course for all decision makers and citizens…
    Thanks to the accompanying PDF for key elements for future reference!

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    Master piece

    Great contributions to understanding the complexity of our social and economic world and ourselves!

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    Universally applicable

    A beautifully written introduction to Dynamic systems theory. I think the world would be a bit better if everyone knew about the contents of this book!

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    • John Chambers
    • 20/06/2020

    Skip to the Middle

    The first and last chapters of this book are useless, but the middle is wonderful. The intro tries to hook you with a "you guys think differently" monologue that comes across like an evangelist seeking a convert; and the conclusion mixes a bunch of unsubstantiated and unconnected ethical theses in with a few plausible applications of systems thinking to life in general. If you want to learn the subject, this book will certainly help you. The middle is serious writing and presents the topic in an approachable fashion; but do yourself a favor and listen ONLY to the middle.

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    • Andrew C
    • 12/05/2019

    Left me craving for more systems literature

    I've been thinking about feedback loops for years but never realized there was a field of study that covered the topic.

    Given the immense impact of feedback loops in all facets of (my) life, its certainly something worth studying more in depth. While the book goes much further, learning the definition of a feedback loop was even valuable: in a system that involves a stock, >= 1 inflow, and >= 1 outflow, a feedback loop occurs when there is a relationship between the level of a stock and the level of a flow. This is in essence another way to describe exponential growth.

    This book discusses different system archetypes, of which on the highest level are reinforcing feedback loops (where more stock results in more inflow or less outflow), and balancing feedback loops (where more stock results in less inflow or more outflow). Without intervening to slow their growth, or through the counter via balancing feedback loops, reinforcing feedback loops will destroy themselves. Slowing growth in reinforcing loops is a leverage point can be fruitful for enhancing the sustainability of almost any system - the ecosystem, the economy, our bodies - and is more effective than the addition of balancing feedback loops. Other key leverage points, or viable intervention points in systems are setting up system rules/laws/incentives, reducing information asymmetry ("Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information"), defining a system's purpose, and understanding the paradigms that led to a purpose. Instead, many people in charge of system decisions spend their time on low-level parameter tweaking such as how much political is energy spent on increasing the minimum wage; not only are these changes unlikely to have a significant impact on system performance, given the counter-intuitiveness of systems people often push these levers in the wrong direction.

    Donella applies systems thinking to a host of systems common in daily life; I will now think if these in a much different, fuller way going forward. I'm excited to continue my study of this lens on the world.

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    • Rakkhi
    • 05/05/2019

    Really not a book

    As the preamble states this was some notes that was published as a book after the authors death. Really presents two basic ideas of a reinforcing feedback and a balancing feedback and then some very high level ideas and examples she admits were from one week of a newspaper. Would not recommend

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    • Greg W.
    • 05/08/2019

    Changed the way I approach my work

    I came to this book with no systems thinking background. It helped me get a foundation for the elements and influence on systems, and provided a framework for approaching problems by looking for stocks, inflows and outflows of system at hand. It has already influenced how I craft goals, consider stakeholders, and make strategic choices. I’m not a systems thinker because of this book. However, I’m a slightly better leader because of its lessons.

    It can be a little difficult for a novice to listen to the first several chapters. Those chapters cover key concepts that would benefit from pictorial representations of the systems concepts. I’m listening to the book a second time, and I’m picking up a lot more this time.

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    • Sigurdur Josef Arnason
    • 01/12/2018

    Excellent and enjoyable intro to System Dynamics

    I love this book and listening to this audio version is a delightful experience. Tia Rider Sorensen narrates this perfectly.

    Donella Meadows was truly an inspiring systems thinker. Her marvellous insights are so well and clearly communicated throughout this book that it will keep interested both the System Dynamics practitioner and the Layman alike.

    This is a book that I wished all policymakers in the world would read/listen to.

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    • Dan Gottesman
    • 14/12/2018

    systems allow us to better understand the world

    Very interesting. And it became more captivating with each chapter. I'll recommend it to others.

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    • Utilisateur anonyme
    • 09/08/2018

    Perfect intro into system thinking

    really enjoyed the reader and the content. I would recommend to anyone looking to have a better understanding of why our ecosystem or world, in general, are all interconnected.

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    • John Z
    • 17/02/2019

    Makes you analyze everything from a different perspective

    Very thought provoking read, provides real world and hypothetical examples of how you can look at something from a whole new perspective than how you already do. Concepts can be applied to any domain.

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    • 03/02/2019

    Excellent!!!

    Very good explanation of what I thought I already knew. I was wrong. Enjoyed and engaged every minute of it.

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    • ArizonaKilroy
    • 19/05/2019

    Not what it seems

    I was hoping to gain a deeper understanding of systems thinking from this book. It did not scratch the itch. As stated in the book, this is a published collection of notes that were massaged into a book decades later. With a little more structure and content, this could have been a great book.
    The author's political bias permeates throughout. Every single catechism of progressive ideology is clumsily promoted. Global warming, abortion, Marxist economics, forest and fisheries management, etc. There's no reason for this, and it detracts from the main concepts.

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    • Peter Wielander
    • 14/12/2020

    Interesting

    The book is interesting, and very well read, but I don't feel like I've gained much useful knowledge overall.
    Much of it feels like a more complicated way to say: "Think things through and consider the motivations of different actors in a system you're observing".

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    • pitpat
    • 27/06/2022

    Wonderful

    This book gets 5 stars for the last two chapters alone, they are magnificent and very inspiring! The audible version should have clickable sub-chapter headings for the second-to-last chapter though, they are sorely missing

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    • Sorin Albu-Irimies
    • 19/10/2020

    Changed the way I see systems

    A great book for systems thinking starter. It takes you on an easily understandable journey towards complex systems thinking.
    Highly recommend it.
    As a developer it helped me break down problem into first principles.

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    • Dr. Sasha Göbbels
    • 06/07/2019

    A seminal book on systems theory

    This is THE introductory book about systems theory and its practical applications. It also contains a chapter on how to use or better live the wqy systems theoretics look at the world.

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    • Kindle-Kunde
    • 15/01/2023

    Best systems theory book!

    THE introduction to systems theory, thinking and navigating complex (adaptive) systems. Especially the part on the hierarchy of systems' leverage points (e.g., no paradigms as the ultimate impact level) is eye-/mind-opening.

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    • Elisabeth Alder
    • 22/07/2020

    Großartig

    Eine kluge Lehrerin, die komplexe Zusammenhänge einfach erzählt. Und das alles war schon 1994 klar. Danke dafür einen großen Teil meines Weltbildes so gut zu erklären.

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