Draws on science, spiritual values, psychology, the cutting edge of management thought with leading companies which employ Fifth Discipline methods. This edition contains more than 100 pages of material about how companies are actually using and benefiting from Fifth Discipline practices.

This pragmatic guide shows how to create an organization of learners. The stories in this book show that businesses, schools, agencies and even communities can undo their learning disabilities and achieve superior performance.

Offers exercises, tools and techniques for sustaining organisational learning over the long term, as well as suggestions, advice, cautions and warnings based on the experience of people who have already followed the path suggested by the author in The Fifth Discipline .

Incorporates parallel development in quantum theory, self-organizing systems and complexity theory. This book features the synthesis of holistic thinking, operational thinking, sociocultural systems, and interactive design.

Full title: 'Cybernetics of Control & Communication in the Animal and the Machine'.

Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. This anthology of his major work contains a foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson.

Radical and hopeful, synthesises cutting-edge thinking, firsthand knowledge and ancient wisdom. Gives the reader an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning.

A guide to applying the new science to organisations, and our lives. This book shows how examples of non-linear networks and organizations are flourishing in the modern world. It presents examples like the E-bay, search engines and viral marketing works which are based on self-organising dynamics.

An original work by eminent economists attempting to reconstruct economics as an evolutionary science.

The theory of Memory Evolutive Systems (MES) represents a mathematical model for natural open self-organizing systems, such as biological, sociological or neural systems. The MES proposes a mathematical model for autonomous evolutionary systems and is based on the Category Theory of mathematics. This book provides comprehensive coverage of MES.

A dictionary of philosophy in the English language, this title also serves as a lexicon of modern Western philosophical concepts, problems, principles, and theories. Organised by internationally recognised philosopher Mario Bunge, it elucidates and evaluates many philosophical ideas from a humanist and scientifically oriented perspective.

Serves as a primer of the fundamental thought of Ludwig von Mises and an anthology of the writings of the best-known exponent of the Austrian School of economics. This volume contains forty-seven articles, and includes Mises's expositions of the role of government, his discussion of inequality of wealth, inflation, socialism, welfare, and more.

Marshalling a vast array of new data, more powerful computer modelling and incorporating the latest thinking on sustainability, ecological footprinting and limits, this new book presents future overshoot scenarios and makes an even more urgent case for a rapid readjustment of the global economy toward a sustainable path.

Too often, managers are sold simple solutions to complex problems. But as many soon discover, simplicity is rarely effective in the face of complexity, change and diversity. Despite apparent promise, quick-fix panaceas fail because they are not holistic or creative enough. This book helps you in various stages in the study of Systems Thinking.

Discusses the technical issues involved in adopting a product line strategy, as well as the organizational and management issues that are critical for success. This book explores the key activities for software product line development and explains specific practice areas in engineering, technical management, and organizational management.

This is a book about how social sciences can be improved in ways that its relevance is expanded, the applicability of its knowledge is enlarged and increased, and the commitment to questioning the status quo is strengthened.

System dynamics is both a utilized approach to organizational problem solving at the professional level, and a field of study in business, engineering, and social and physical sciences. This book explains what system dynamics is, and how it can be successfully applied to solve business and organizational problems.

Chronicling the history and purpose of the original district of finance, the birthplace of the money market, and the model for Wall Street, namely Lombard Street, this book is the 1873 classic on explaining the money market to investors.