Thinking in Systems

出版者:Chelsea Green Publishing

作者:Donella H. Meadows

页数:240

出版时间:2008-12-3

价格:USD 19.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781603580557

具体描述

In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, "Limits to Growth"athe first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planeta Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001.Meadowsa newly released manuscript, "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 Instituteas 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 worldawar, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradationaare 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 readers 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 readers 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 readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.

作者简介

[美] 德内拉•梅多斯

 世界上最伟大的系统思考大师之一，师从系统动力学创始人杰伊•福瑞斯特，是知名的“世界模型Ⅲ”主创人员，也是 “学习型组织之父”、《第五项修炼》作者彼得•圣吉的老师。

 1972年，作为畅销书《增长的极限》的第一作者，她引领了社会观念变革的先河，引发了全球对地球承载能力和人类选择的大辩论，另著有9本关于全球建模和可持续发展问题的著作，并于1996年创立了可持续性发展协会。

 她始终处于环境与社会分析研究领域的最前沿，1991年被授予环境保护领域的“皮尤学者奖”，1994年又荣获“麦克阿瑟天才奖”。

 从1972年直到2001年去世，她一直在达特茅斯学院环境研究项目任教，致力于在经济学、环境和社会变革等领域应用系统思考和组织学习的方法。

读后感

从系统基础开始介绍，介绍各种系统，系统内在特性，系统外在表现的特色，系统在实际生活环境中常出现的陷阱和应对方法，对工作生活很有帮助，为推动工作，书里提示了12大变革方法，引导思考，同时介绍了15个方面以便和系统更好的协调共舞。 本书思路清晰，目录清楚，可以经常看...  

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用户评价

原版比中文译本好读太多了……以各种分类举例列举了各种系统的特征，可能出现的问题和改进方式~都是很日常的例子，但上升到理论还是会眼前一亮

阅读时不停地点头称是，与作者观点一致。但这也许是因为自己读过的书形成了 echo chamber，已经思维固化，没有前途了（

A great book about system thinking ! This way of thinking could be widely applied to basically every part of our life.

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A great book about system thinking ! This way of thinking could be widely applied to basically every part of our life.