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File Size: 1666 KB
Print Length: 233 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 184407725X
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing (December 3, 2008)
Publication Date: February 5, 2009
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B005VSRFEA
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I got this book because we develop systems for patient compliance, the reviews were high and i was eager to learn from such an expert of high acclaim. In fact the book is a superficial collection of high level ideas with little to no added value or insights. The book is a spectacular example of what Feynman called "cargo science". Do meaningful not just quantifiable. Indeed. The book is also heavily influenced by the author's environmental agenda which should be disturbing to anyone with an engineering or physics education used to system analysis. Read Bellman's classic "Adaptive Control Processes - A guided tour" for real thought and insights on systems.
Let me guess -- the author probably had 50 pages of really cool, thought-provoking material, but the editor went all, like, 'you can't publish a 50-page book, go make it 200 pages', and as a result, we see things like 3 repetitive examples where 1 would suffice, and then instead of saying 'and the converse is true', we spend another paragraph just negating the previous one. And sometimes you do bump into really important concept in all this, so I had to dig through this carefully in order to avoid missing what I came here for.Pro: learned a few new English words.
I wish there was a higher rating of 5 stars. This book so simply and elegantly explains any and every problem, scenario, and reality out there. Once you read and understand it (which is so easy because meadows writes so straightforward and beautifully) you can't unsee all of the systems traps and levers that are being used in the real world everyday. Life changing read for me I am so glad that I read it for a class of mine.
I like the topic. I care a lot about the topic. I work primarily in fields related to this. About 70% of the economic examples in the book are wrong because the ahthor doesn't understand the system and feedback systems in play. In a book about systems theory, this is mostly inexcusable.
A beautiful and brilliant work that gifts us with a world view to aspire to. If I was king, this would be required being for all humanity. As Bill McKibben says, a classic. The first part of the book is the systems primer, and can be a bit of a slog for those unused to this discipline; the rest of the book is about how to apply systems thinking to a remarkably broad range of problems and issues. This book is as much a work of spirit as it is of science, and I keep it on the shelf between the Zen teachings and ecology texts. Get it; read it...more than once.
There are a few books that encapsulate a way of thinking so simply, so clearly and so compellingly that I find myself giving little kisses of delight to the cover. I read this on a Kindle, so this resulted in quite a lot of smudging.I am not a student of systems or someone who ever spent much time thinking about systems at all, although, like practically everybody, my life and work are all about either creating, maintaining, supporting, or surviving various systems. I heard about this book from a Tweet referring to its twenty-fifth anniversary and linking to an article singing its praises, which it does better than I can. For me, it has been a truly revelatory experience, a platonic slave-in-the-cave moment, which I believe will divide my cognitive experience into pre and post its reading. As Meadows warns at its outset, studying systems leads one to see systems everywhere, which, of course, is because they were there all along. But being able to see and interpret them allows us to better participate and avoid traps that commonly lead to system failure. Sadly, it also allows us to understand why some decisions taken by executives, politicians, and others that manage systems in which we have little or no control are doomed to failure and to undermine their own goals. This awareness will help readers become better citizens/coworkers and critics of leadership. But it can also help us avoid issues that threaten our own, smaller systems, our relationships, families, homes, work, and health.This book draws heavily on examples from the time in which it was written, which artificially sets the book in a particular historical moment. Meadows simply had so many examples to chose from, that she took quotes from contemporaneous newspaper articles. But the examples might as well be chosen from today’s stories or those from hundreds of years ago. They are just examples. This book is timeless. These quotes from the early nineties have the added benefit of proving her point, as in most cases history has borne out the predictions that stem from the flaws and features that Meadows points out.Note that there were some oddities in the Kindle version. A few words seem to have disappeared in various places in the transposition. I bought a hard copy of the book and was able to fill the gaps (just a few words here and there, nothing that would keep me from recommending the Kindle edition). I hope the editors will correct this.The end of the book contains a very useful appendix that I am tempted to tear out and put up on the wall, detailing fundamentals of systems thinking.I could not recommend this highly enough.
The highly complex subject is covered in such a lucid manner, easily accessible to the lay person. We know that the world is so unpredictable, but if you want to gain some understanding of why things happen they way they do, this book will help you to look in the right place. It also helps you build a method to understanding the impact of decisions you or your organization are planning to take.I've learnt a lot from this book, and even cited learnings from it to friends and colleagues. Definitely a must read.
I'm about half way through, but the content doesn't seem to be getting much richer. The systems thinking presented in the book so far is fairly basic. If you've had good networking and computer systems classes you would have covered most of this material. Also, the author seems to have a leftist political ax to grind with the (pedagogically simplistic) examples she chooses. With her credentials, I would have liked a more neutral and counter-intuitive examples
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