
is an excellent book edited by Fiona Charles (isbn 978-0-932633-75-0). As usual I'm going to quote from a few pages
Jerry warns us that when a system that continues to change or that is in a changing environment is subjected to a fixed set of tests, it will inevitably over-adapt to those tests, leading to a higher probability of severe or surprising failures in the field. (James Bach)
Complexity isn't an attribute; it's a relationship. (Michael Bolton)
When feedback is offered in the spirit of improving a working relationship, it's all positive. (Esther Derby)
In my experience, if you have a passion for something and want to take responsibility for making it happen you can always find an existing group, or find people around you who are willing to form a new group to get it off the ground. (Willem van den Ende)
People are relentlessly themselves. (Naomi Karten)
In experiential learning, students are fully engaged, and as a result, they determine what they learn, not the instructors or presenters. (Naomi Karten)
...problems that look technical. (James Bullock)
Both PSL and aikido teach practiced awareness of oneself, the situation, and others. (James Bullock)
Shugyo is to step onto the mat exactly when there is every excuse not to. (James Bullock)
I have become enormously skeptical of simple cause-and-effect explanations of any system behavior. (Tim Lister)
And maybe most important of all (and I've been a consultant for about thirty years now), I thank Jerry for helping me think about system dynamics and change. (Tim Lister)
In the technology industry, we spend so much time trying to control machines that we start thinking like machines. (Jonathan Kohl)