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En los años posteriores a su papel como autora principal del bestseller internacional, ‘’Límites del crecimiento’, el primer libro que muestra las consecuencias del crecimiento descontrolado en un planeta finito, Donella Meadows siguió siendo una pionera del análisis ambiental y social hasta su prematura muerte en 2001. Este manual esencial lleva el pensamiento sistémico fuera del ámbito de las computadoras y las ecuaciones al mundo tangible, mostrando a los lectores cómo desarrollar las habilidades del pensamiento sistémico que los líderes de pensamiento de todo el mundo consideran fundamentales para la vida del siglo XXI. Algunos de los mayores problemas que enfrenta el mundo ? guerra, hambre, pobreza y degradación ambiental? son esencialmente fallos del sistema. No pueden resolverse arreglando una pieza de forma aislada de las demás, porque incluso los detalles aparentemente menores tienen un enorme poder para socavar los mejores esfuerzos de un pensamiento demasiado estrecho. Si bien los lectores aprenderán las herramientas conceptuales y los métodos del pensamiento sistémico, el corazón del libro es más grandioso que la metodología. Donella Meadows era conocida tanto por cultivar resultados positivos como por profundizar en la ciencia detrás de los dilemas globales. Ella les recuerda a los lectores que presten atención a lo que es importante, no solo a lo cuantificable, que se mantengan humildes y sigan aprendiendo. En un mundo cada vez más complicado, abarrotado e interdependiente, ‘Pensando en sistemas’ ayuda a los lectores a evitar la confusión y la impotencia, el primer paso para encontrar soluciones proactivas y eficaces. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Before she died, Dartmouth professor Donella Meadows compiled this manuscript to encapsulate this perspective. This book, compiled posthumously by Diana Wright, offers the best, most concise introduction to this field of systems thinking. It enlightens by giving readers access to an Ivy League course through its contents.
Any worker, knowledge worker or otherwise, can deeply benefit from seeing the life systems around themselves. Meadows focuses on examples in economic and environmental systems, but this philosophy can also apply to engineering and information systems. The world gives us plenty of feedback, and the challenge becomes identifying the correct measurables and values. Systems thinkers have emphasized the different way systems universally operate and how we can make use of them for individual and common good.
This book takes an academic, even philosophical, approach to this topic. It does not deal with many industry specifics. That perspective may turn some folks off, but it teaches us how to think about the systemic structures around us. Meadows identifies abstract principles like feedback loops that normally return to baseline or approach a goal. She helps us care for everything that goes on around us, whether in the business, personal, or personal domains. ( )