System Thinkers- The Open University: Springer By Magnus

In our profoundly complex and interconnected world, there is a pressing need for systems thinking, to consider environmental, societal, and organizational issues as interconnected wholes rather than separating them into parts and looking at each in isolation. This book presents a biographical history of systems thinking, by examining the life and work of thirty of its major thinkers. Systems Thinkers 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 flavor of their work and to give readers a sense of which thinkers are most relevant to their own interests.