This book compares and contrasts systems thinkers’ ideas, with some insights not commonly expressed.
Systems thinkers discussed include Ackoff, Ashby, Beer, Bertalanffy, Boulding, Checkland, Churchman, Forrester, Maturana, Meadows, and Senge. After reviewing their ideas, and relating their approaches to each other, the book dives more deeply into particular concepts, such as “purpose”, “information” and “self-organization”, and ends with a more philosophical discussion of how we describe reality.
