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'I was delighted to read this book. It is simply the most thoughtful, comprehensible, and accessible work I have yet seen on working with the whole system' - Margaret J. Wheatley
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First Edition 1999 |
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Second Edition 2005 |
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Brilliant weaving together of concepts & practicalities
This book, and the Whole Systems Working Paper series, have helped
me enormously in making sense of inter-agency working and policy
implementation in a multi-agency setting. The authors are brilliant
at weaving together the theories/concepts with the practicalities,
and convey a real sense of "learning as we go".
Working Whole Systems
I
found the book excellent and really insightful. The power of
working whole systems is explored in a number of ways. Two that
caught my eye : the system that knows itself will work together to
develop a high quality way forward and will then be committed to
its implementation. This is a very powerful dynamic.
I found that the book presented a really good balance between the
theoretical and the practical - the careful articulation of
principles and the "where to begin" chapter is a great
example of this.
I highly recommend this
book to anyone who is looking to play a part in helping an
organisation to truly make progress.
A refreshing approach to co-creating our present and future
As
an Integrative psychotherapist with an interest in
multiculturalism, I have found this book interesting, stimulating
and personably written. In using the metaphor of living systems,
it is an organic, positive and straight-forward approach to
understanding human systems based on "what works" rather
than fixing what does not. It addresses how we can move together
towards changing the systems in which we live, by identifying
mutually fulfilling goals through a shared experience of being
human. In this way, it is a respectful approach to valuing every
member of a system and their experience of that system. If your
interest lies in creating an organic, psychologically healthy and
functioning society, I cannot recommend this book enough!
An easy to read Introduction to the Whole System Approach
If like me you work in the real world and are interested not only
in understanding what whole system working is, but how to apply
it, read this. I liked the short explanation on what whole systems
working is, how the use of metaphors can open up thinking to new
possibilities, and the live examples cited throughout. I thought
that the placing of the Glossary of Terms at the beginning of the
book, and the section on Commonly Asked Questions was helpful. The
authors of this book are published academics, who clearly want the
ideas of whole system working, to reach across all boundaries and
have gone out of their way to dump unnecessary jargon and pretense
to achieve this.
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