The Art of Systems Thinking: Essential Skills for Creativity and Problem Solving

This book is a kind of introduction to the art of systems thinking, a story about the principles and methods of a holistic understanding of complex systems, about properties whose behavior is determined by the nature of the connections between their components and the ideas of the people involved in them. The authors managed to achieve an unusual combination of imagery and depth by describing problem situations using cause-and-effect cycles - chains of reinforcing and balancing feedbacks. T...