The Fifth Discipline — Peter Senge
How organisations learn and why most of them don't. Systems thinking applied to human enterprise.
Thinking in Systems — Donella Meadows
The best introduction to systems thinking ever written. Short, clear, and immediately applicable.
The Logic of Scientific Discovery — Karl Popper
Popper's argument that science advances by falsification — by being wrong in specific, refutable ways. The standard FRQNCY holds to when distinguishing what can be tested from what can only be believed.
Donella Meadows
Lead author of the 1972 Limits to Growth report that first modelled planetary overshoot, and founder of the Sustainability Institute. Thinking in Systems was assembled from her drafts after her 2001 death and remains the clearest introduction to systems thinking in print.
Peter Senge
Senior lecturer at MIT Sloan and founder of the Society for Organizational Learning. The Fifth Discipline (1990) brought systems thinking into corporate management vocabulary and remains the most-cited single book on organisational learning.
