Taken from AskHN thread: Any recommendation on how to develop systems thinking?
Articles
- Introduction to Systems Thinking (https://thesystemsthinker.com/introduction-to-systems-thinki…)
- Tools of a Systems Thinker (https://medium.com/disruptive-design/tools-for-systems-think…)
- The Mythical Leverage Point (https://blog.kumu.io/the-mythical-leverage-point-d582ce4b8b4…)
Leading System Change
- Dawn of Systems Leadership (https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_dawn_of_system_leadershi…)
- Acting and Thinking Systemically (https://thesystemsthinker.com/acting-and-thinking-systemical…)
- Transforming the Systems Movement (https://thesystemsthinker.com/transforming-the-systems-movem…)
Videos
- Peter Senge Introduction to Systems Thinking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXdzKBWDraM)
- I Used To Be A Systems Thinker* (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ymt_TbNNwE)
- The (Failed) Promised of Systems Thinking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=614&v=aelqgvFXGi…)
- Systems Practice Mindsets (https://vimeo.com/212281432)
Courses
- +Acumen Systems Practice Course (https://www.plusacumen.org/courses/systems-practice)
Books
- Thinking In Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows (https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp…)
- Fifth Discipline Fieldbook (https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Discipline-Fieldbook-Strategies…)
- Systems Thinking for Social Change (https://www.amazon.com/Systems-Thinking-Social-Change-Conseq…)
- Introduction to Cybernetics (http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html)
Tools and Websites
- Kumu (https://kumu.io) - Web-based tool for building interactive system maps.
- https://insightmaker.com/tag/Systemswiki
- The Systems Thinker (https://thesystemsthinker.com/ - Complete library of all “The Systems Thinker” publications over the past 30 years
Unsorted
Learn by watching and reading materials released by great system thinkers. Ludwig von Bertalanffy
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_ebooks_1?text=Ludw...
John Seddon
Theory of Constraints
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002LHRM2O The Goal / Eli Goldratt
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KYW1L66 Necessary but Not Sufficient / Eli Goldratt
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0884271137 It’s Not Luck / Eli Goldratt
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00408ALES Isn’t it Obvious? / Eli Goldratt
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002LHRM2E Critical Chain / Eli Goldratt
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004THZ9VK Be Fast or Be Gone / Andreas Scherer
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1499660901 Hanging Fire / Jeff Cox
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1439158932 Velocity / Dee Jacob
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XKX1FEO Epiphanized / Bob Sproull & Bruce Nelson
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0185JFYEO Focus and Leverage / Bob Sproull & Bruce Nelson
A full list of books on ToC here http://www.tocico.org/?page=toc_books
Russell L. Ackoff
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?search-alia...
Gerald M. Weinberg
https://www.amazon.com/Gerald-M.-Weinberg/e/B00459FFAC/
Philip B. Crosby
https://www.amazon.com/Philip-B.-Crosby/e/B001HD360A
Peter M. Senge
https://www.amazon.com/Peter-M.-Senge/e/B000AQ8R86/
And many more, most of which are mentioned by the above in their work.
The book Making Things Work by Yaneer Bar-Yam
Russ Ackoff’s “Ackoff’s Best: His Classic Writings on Management” di Russell L. Ackoff. http://a.co/6LvRWPO
And also Ackoff’s talks on Systems Thinking:
A few cool reads in this area that are varyingly-related to software:
* Architecture of Open Source Applications (http://aosabook.org/en/index.html): always a nice reference for brief overviews of how various OSS projects are architected.
* Counterintuitive Behavior of Social Systems (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-98…): primarily an argument by Jay Forrester (the “father” of system dynamics) for using computer models to test social policy changes, but also serves as a primer for_how_systems are complicated, and how to approach reasoning about complex systems.
* A City Is Not A Tree (http://en.bp.ntu.edu.tw/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/06-Alexan…): ostensibly a paper about the structure of cities, but but really a deeper insight into the limits of using tree-like structures to describe systems.