Required Reading

Systems thinking is a practice. These books have shaped how we understand systems — how they work, how they fail, and how to make them better.

• Thinking in Systems – Donella Meadows
• Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World – John D. Sterman
• How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail – John Gall
• The Systems Thinking Playbook – Linda Booth Sweeney & Dennis Meadows
• Lean Thinking – James Womack & Daniel Jones
• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement – Eliyahu M. Goldratt
• Managing the Design Factory – Donald G. Reinertsen
• Work the System – Sam Carpenter
• The Toyota Way – Jeffrey Liker
• Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development – Alec Sharp & Patrick McDermott
• Real-Life BPMN – Jakob Freund & Bernd Rücker