HIDDEN POWER OF SYSTEMS THINKING: governance in a climate emergency

This persuasive, lively book shows how systems thinking can be harnessed for profound, complex change and offers 21 principles for systemic governance. Inspiring reading for students of systems thinking, specialists in change management or public administration, activists for whole system change and decision makers.

Introduction: Crafting a viable future -- Why governance systems are failing -- Preferential lobbying and emergent failure -- What is missing from current governance models -- Examples : health services, flood defence, meetings -- Investing in systems thinking in practice capability -- Reinventing governance systems -- New practices and institutions for systemic governing -- Why and how constitutions matter -- Making beneficial change -- Principles for systemic governing -- What next?