Books that see the world in surprising ways so that we can change it for the better
Exapt Press publish books about systems and complexity thinking and allied trades, such as agile, lean, organisational development, service design, and co-design.
New Books
Fifty years ago The Limits to Growth changed the world.
What did we learn? What did we do? What happens now?
Limits and Beyond: 50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next? is available from Amazon stores all over the world in paperback and ebook.
With two of the original authors, Dennis Meadows and Jorgen Randers, joined by 19 world-renowned economists, thinkers, and analysts from across the globe, cultures, and genders, Limits and Beyond asks why nothing has happened in the last 50 years and what are the different ways of seeing and being that will set us back on the right track?
Can we stop collapse? Can we save ourselves and the planet?
The audiobook of Essential Balances: Stop Looking and Start Seeing What Makes Organizations Work has been released. Start listening with Audible (free with a trial subscription).
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Latest Blog Posts
Is Star Wars about complexity?
It’s a classic hero’s journey. A farm boy’s destiny thrusts him into a quest to save the princess, battle the dark lord, and destroy the evil castle.
But what underpins Luke’s transformation? He grows up, learns to trust others to fight evil, but his real awakening is his awareness of The Force.
Release the reader’s tension – call and response
After a meandering, lyrical piano intro, the double bass locks in the tempo with a bubbling lick answered by two longer open chords from the keyboard. Then the bass takes back the initiative to scoop up the rhythm once more. Again the piano responds. After a few bars of this to and fro, the brass instruments join in with the piano’s gentle tug of war with the bassline.
So what?
Why is writing about complexity and systems so hard?
Writing about anything is difficult. How to describe people, places and things in an engaging and useful way is the problem facing any non-fiction writer.
But we who write about complexity and systems have it much worse.