Systems Thinking, Systems Practice: Includes a 30-Year Retrospective
Peter Checkland’s Classic Book that introduced ‘soft systems thinking’ to the management world.
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The Diversity Bonus: How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy
What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to do? What if it can also improve the bottom line? It can. The Diversity Bonus shows how and why. — amazon.co.uk
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Pathways to Wisdom: the Risky Adventure of Expanding One’s Horizons
How six books on cosmology, human nature, consciousness, stories and thermodynamics challenge the faith of a progressive Christian.
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The Enigma of Reason: A New Theory of Human Understanding
‘Mercier and Sperber offer a surprising and powerful response to the new orthodoxy propounded by Kahneman and Tversky … arguing that the supposed flaws of hot, fast, automatic thinking are actually design features which work remarkably well’ Julian Baggini
Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our knowledge and wisdom. But, if reason is so useful, why didn’t it also evolve in other animals? If it is that reliable, why do we produce so much thoroughly reasoned nonsense?
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I am a Strange Loop
One of our greatest philosophers and scientists of the mind asks, where does the self come from — and how our selves can exist in the minds of others. Compulsively readable and endlessly thought-provoking, this is a moving and profound inquiry into the nature of mind. — amazon.co.uk
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