An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
Dorset House, (April 2001)Abstract
For more than twenty-five years, An Introduction to General Systems
Thinking has been hailed as an innovative introduction to systems
theory, with applications in computer science and beyond. Used in
university courses and professional seminars all over the world,
the text has proven its ability to open minds and sharpen thinking.
<P>Originally published in 1975 and reprinted more than twenty times
over a quarter century -- and now available for the first time from
Dorset House Publishing -- the text uses clear writing and basic
algebraic principles to explore new approaches to projects, products,
organizations, and virtually any kind of system. <P>Scientists,
engineers, organization leaders, managers, doctors, students, and
thinkers of all disciplines can use this book to dispel the mental
fog that clouds problem-solving. As author Gerald M. Weinberg writes
in the new preface to the Silver Anniversary Edition, "I haven’t
changed my conviction that most people don’t think nearly as well
as they could had they been taught some principles of thinking.�
<P>Now an award-winning author of nearly forty books spanning the
entire software development life cycle, Weinberg had already acquired
extensive experience as a programmer, manager, university professor,
and consultant when this book was originally published. <P>With
helpful illustrations, numerous end-of-chapter exercises, and an
appendix on a mathematical notation used in problem-solving, An
Introduction to General Systems Thinking may be your most powerful
tool in working with problems, systems, and solutions.
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