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
I can’t write simply about complexity and systems. It will lose its meaning.
Writing about complexity and systems thinking can be hard to understand.
When writing about complexity or systems thinking, there is a lot of nuance. There are fine distinctions to draw and subtleties to highlight. Not to mention the abstractions.
The worry is, if you simplify, you lose that.
Have you found the “One Thing”? I have. Lots of them.
I’d found it. The One Thing. It was Microsoft Access.
Yes! No laughing at the back. Microsoft Access.
Are people already systems thinkers without knowing it?
People already have an intuition about complexity and systems thinking.
Systems thinkers often bemoan the lack of applied systems thinking. Yet, people have a natural tendency to understand these things, even if they can’t quite articulate it.