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Author
Publisher
Springer
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"Systems Thinkers presents a biographical history of the field of systems thinking, by examining the life and work of thirty of its major thinkers. It discusses each thinker's key contributions, the way this contribution was expressed in practice and the relationship between their life and ideas. This discussion is supported by an extract from the thinker's own writing, to give a flavour of their work and to give readers a sense of which thinkers...
Author
Series
Systems and industrial engineering volume Volume 2
Publisher
ISTE
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Author
Series
Studies in systems decision and control volume Volume 72
Publisher
Springer
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Series
Kybernetes volume Volume 48 Number 2
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Series
Kybernetes volume Volume 48, Issue 1
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Series
Applied mechanics and materials volume Volume 656
Publisher
TTP
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
"Donors, leaders of nonprofits, and public policy makers usually have the best of intentions to serve society and improve social conditions. But often their solutions fall far short of what they want to accomplish and what is truly needed. Moreover, the answers they propose and fund often produce the opposite of what they want over time. We end up with temporary shelters that increase homelessness, drug busts that increase drug-related crime, or food...