The systems bible : the beginner's guide to systems large and small : being the third edition of Systemantics / by John Gall.
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Walker, Minn. :
General Systemantics Press,
[2002]
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Table of Contents:
- PART ONE : BASIC THEORY: THE MYSTERIOUS WAYS OF SYSTEMS: First principles
- Law of growth
- The generalized uncertainty principle
- A..B..C..Disaster (feedback)
- The power of positive feedback : a warning
- What next? : (the life cycle of systems)
- INSIDE AND OUTSIDE: The grand illusion
- Inside systems
- Delusion systems versus systems-delusions
- Systems-people
- FUNCTION AND FAILURE: Elementary systems functions
- Advanced systems functions
- The system knows (system goals)
- Systems failure (theory of errors)
- Glitches, gremlins, bugs
- Forms, function, failure
- Colossal errors
- Unexpected interactions
- COMMUNICATION THEORY: Communication theory
- Information
- Talking to the system
- PART TWO : APPLIED SYSTEMANTICS: SYSTEMS AND SELF-DEFENSE : META-STRATEGIES: How not to solve problems
- The tao of problem avoidance (meta-strategy I)
- The creative tack (meta-strategy II)
- PRACTICAL SYSTEMS-DESIGN: Design don'ts
- Catastrophe theory
- MANAGEMENT AND OTHER MYTHS: Wishful feedback
- Fear of feedback
- Feedback and the future
- Catalytic managership (utilization)
- The "problem" problem
- The limits to grandiosity
- Disaster control
- INTERVENTION: Where's the problem?
- Probing the system
- The problem in the solution
- Taming systems
- The problem in the question
- The Net of Indra
- Beyond stability
- After the solution, what : (the next problem)
- Envoi
- APPENDICES.