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Further Resources

Growing Wings On The Way lists a range of additional resources on Systems Thinking. Here are some links to them:

The Internet
The Internet provides some very useful resources as well as plenty of low-quality material. The following are useful offerings whose web addresses may change but look likely to have some longevity.

• OpenLearn at the (UK) Open University provides extracts from a range of Open University systems-thinking courses
• Principia Cybernetica is somewhat academic but provides a very useful Web Dictionary of Cybernetics and Systems
• The BBC has a systems-practice website
• The American Society for Cybernetics has lots of systems related materials and discussions
• Mind Tools have quick tools available for download

Books
There are many, many books on systems thinking although the range runs from the populist-but-useless to the impenetrably academic with variable quality characterising the whole range. I have cited the books that are important to me in the notes at the end of each chapter but you might also want to explore the work of some of the following:

Chris Argyris (learning in organisations, learning as a systemic phenomenon)
Overcoming Organizational Defenses: Facilitating organizational learning
Reasoning, Learning, and Action

Gregory Bateson (cybernetics, psychology and systems theory)
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays
Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity

Mary Catherine Bateson (life-long learning, making sense of lived experience)
Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom 
Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery 

Stafford Beer (the viable system model, another systems core concept)
The Chronicles of Wizard Prang
In Conversation with Prof. Dr. Stafford Beer
The Heart of Enterprise

Fritjof Capra (emerging systemic paradigms in physics)
The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living
The Turning Point

Jay Forrester (systems dynamics)
Designing the Future
System Dynamics: The Foundation Under Systems Thinking

Ray Ison (systems practice )
How to Act in a Climate Change World
Starting Off Systemically in Environmental Decision Making

Michael C. Jackson (methodologies)
Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers
Systems Approaches to Management

Kambiz Maani and Bob Cavana (systems dynamics)
Systems Thinking, System Dynamics: Managing Change and Complexity

Gerald Midgley (methodologies)
Systems Thinking

Magnus Ramage and Karen Shipp (the contributions of systems thinking’s founding parents)
Systems Thinkers

Donald Schön (reflective learning from professional experience)
The Reflective Practitioner
Organizational learning II: Theory, method and practice (with Chris Argyris)

John Seddon (systems thinking in the public sector) 
Systems Thinking in the Public Sector
Delivering Public Services that Work

Peter Senge (systems dynamics and learning in organisations)
The Fifth Discipline
The Necessary Revolution

Conferences
Systems-thinking conferences happen regularly. International bodies such as theAmerican Society for Cybernetics, the Australia and New Zealand Systems Society, theInternational Society for the Systems Sciences and the UK Systems Society run some of the best. Many other international organisations host conferences in languages other than English.
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