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).
Or get your paperback or ebook copy of Essential Balances from Amazon. Or from your favourite store.
Find out more about Essential Balances >>
Latest Blog Posts
If I’d read the other book, I wouldn’t be me
Please don’t recommend any books to me because I’ll want to read them. But luckily, in 2000, I read the wrong book.
I was a software team leader in a bank. I had discovered Extreme Programming (XP) and was introducing it to my team. On an XP message board, someone mentioned Deming.
Who?
Exactly what I thought then.
Could complexity and systems thinking save the world?
Could complexity and systems thinking save the world?
Stafford Beer’s Lost Book
The lost book of Stafford Beer’s so-called ”internal organ” trilogy has been unearthed and will be published in 2021. Exapt Press interviewed Rob Worth, the Editor-in-Chief of Exapt Press to tell the story. Exapt Press: So how did you come to have this lost...