In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, "Limits to Growth"athe first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planeta Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001.Meadowsa newly released manuscript, "Thinking in Systems," is a concise and crucial book off...
In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, "Limits to Growth"athe first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planeta Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001.Meadowsa newly released manuscript, "Thinking in Systems," is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Instituteas Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life.Some of the biggest problems facing the worldawar, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradationaare essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others, because even seemingly minor details have enormous power to undermine the best efforts of too-narrow thinking.While readers will learn the conceptual tools and methods of systems thinking, the heart of the book is grander than methodology. Donella Meadows was known as much for nurturing positive outcomes as she was for delving into the science behind global dilemmas. She reminds readers to pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable, to stay humble, and to stay a learner.In a world growing ever more complicated, crowded, and interdependent, "Thinking in Systems" helps readers avoid confusion and helplessness, the first step toward finding proactive and effective solutions.
0 有用 没肉不行 2026-02-04 09:09:05 加拿大
读完了 且从未如此上头过 立刻从第一章再琢磨
1 有用 spicysummer 2021-01-20 02:38:44
废话一堆
0 有用 蝉 2014-01-10 20:02:29
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0 有用 濯希 2024-04-23 22:08:02 美国
[B] 蛮不错的思考默模式, 但是可能是听书感觉没有太多新意, 唯一的TAKE HOME MESSAGE 是比较倾向于用LINEAR REGRESSION 来思考, 这个点蛮有趣的。 关于模型, 收集的越多越好, 像荣格说的,把每个模型都拿来套用,如果都没有FAIL 说明这个事情还是靠谱的。 另外听的时候一直在像这个模型怎么应用在CODING, 无果, 先存下,只能说不是适合现在读的书 。
2 有用 Lucia 2015-03-15 09:48:53
内容标题就可以概括了。有必要写一本书?!