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• 32 Key Concepts in Systems Thinking and Complexity Theory · not recorded
• A Bibliography of Cybernetics (Barrett and Shepard, 1951) · research pass needs editor
• A Leader's Framework for Decision Making · curator checked public sources
• A Mini-Primer of Critical Systems Heuristics · curator checked public sources
• Adaptation · research pass needs editor
• Alessandro Rancati · curator checked public sources
• Alexander Bogdanov · research pass needs editor
• Alfonso Reyes · curator checked public sources
• Allenna Leonard · independent review not recorded
• Anthro-complexity · curator checked public sources
• Arthur Battram · curator checked public sources
• Ashby: selection, regulation, and variety (Challoner, 2026) · research pass needs editor
• Autonomy · research pass needs editor
• Autopoiesis · research pass needs editor
• Autopoiesis: The Organization of Living Systems, Its Characterization, and a Model · research pass needs editor
• Barry Oshry · curator checked public sources
• Bateson's levels of learning · research pass needs editor
• Benjamin P Taylor · source scoped ai assisted
• Bertalanffy: organisation, openness, and equifinality (Challoner, 2026) · research pass needs editor
• Bhaskar: mechanisms in open systems (Challoner, 2026) · research pass needs editor
• Bifurcation · research pass needs editor
• Bogdanov: organisation and its changing boundaries (Challoner, 2026) · research pass needs editor
• Boundary · research pass needs editor
• Boundary critique · curator checked public sources
• Bounded applicability · curator checked public sources
• Canon formation · not recorded
• Causal powers · research pass needs editor
• Chris Mowles · curator checked public sources
• Coevolving Innovations · curator checked public sources
• Cohesion · research pass needs editor
• Complex Acts of Knowing · curator checked public sources
• Complex responsive processes · curator checked public sources
• Complexity: A Key Idea for Business and Society · curator checked public sources
• Conant-Ashby Theorem · research pass needs editor
• Core systems practice spine · curator checked public sources
• Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH) · curator checked public sources
• Critical Systems Thinking: A Practitioner's Guide · curator checked public sources
• Cynefin framework · curator checked public sources
• Cynefin.io · curator checked public sources
• Cynefin: Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our World · curator checked public sources
• Cynthia F. Kurtz · curator checked public sources
• Damian Allen · first person lineage source checked
• Dancing With Systems · curator checked public sources
• Dave Snowden · curator checked public sources
• Dave Snowden's public blog archive · curator checked public sources
• David Ing · source scoped research pass
• David L. Hawk · independent review not recorded
• Decolonial systems thinking · not recorded
• Deep Transitions · research pass needs editor
• Deep transitions: Emergence, acceleration, stabilization and directionality (2018) · research pass needs editor
• Design for a Brain · research pass needs editor
• Dissipative structure · research pass needs editor
• Distinction · research pass needs editor
• Distributed ethnography · curator checked public sources
• Do Bees Pee? · not recorded
• Doncaster Thrive · official and interview sources checked
• Donella Meadows · curator checked public sources
• Double-loop learning · research pass needs editor
• Dynamic equilibrium in tektology · research pass needs editor
• Egression and degression · research pass needs editor
• Emergence · research pass needs editor
• Epistemic closure · not recorded
• Epistemic injustice · not recorded
• Equifinality · research pass needs editor
• Eric L. Trist · independent review not recorded
• Essential Balances · curator checked public sources
• Essential variables · research pass needs editor
• Estuarine Mapping · curator checked public sources
• Explicit semantics · curator checked public sources
• Feedback · research pass needs editor
• Feedforward · research pass needs editor
• Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used · curator checked public sources
• Fractal Enterprise Model and Capabilities · independent review not recorded
• Frank Geels · research pass needs editor
• Gary S. Metcalf · independent review not recorded
• Gerald Midgley · independent review not recorded
• Homeostasis · research pass needs editor
• Human Learning Systems · official practice sources checked
• Ian I. Mitroff · independent review not recorded
• Identity · research pass needs editor
• Information · research pass needs editor
• Information coding · research pass needs editor
• Information theory · research pass needs editor
• International Federation for Systems Research · independent review not recorded
• International Society for the Systems Sciences · independent review not recorded
• Isomorphism across systems · research pass needs editor
• ISSS student reading and resource guide · research pass needs editor
• Ivo Velitchkov · curator checked public sources
• James J. Kay · independent review not recorded
• Johan Schot · research pass needs editor
• Judith Rosen · independent review not recorded
• Karen Shipp · not recorded
• Kyoichi (Jim) Kijima · independent review not recorded
• Laur Kanger · research pass needs editor
• Leverage points · curator checked public sources
• Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System · curator checked public sources
• Linda Booth Sweeney · not recorded
• Lineage recovery · not recorded
• Lucy Loh · curator checked public sources
• Magnus Ramage · not recorded
• Managing complexity (and chaos) in times of crisis · curator checked public sources
• Mary E. Boone · curator checked public sources
• Materially open system · research pass needs editor
• Meta-rules in Deep Transitions · research pass needs editor
• Michael C. Jackson · curator checked public sources
• Michael Lissack · independent review not recorded
• Multi-level perspective on socio-technical transitions · research pass needs editor
• Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice · curator checked public sources
• Natural drift · curator checked public sources
• Naturalising sense-making · curator checked public sources
• Navigating Complexity · curator checked public sources
• Negative feedback · research pass needs editor
• Nodica · curator checked public sources
• Observer · research pass needs editor
• Open causal system · research pass needs editor
• Opening the Box · curator checked public sources
• Organic Systems Framework · curator checked public sources
• Organisation as relations · research pass needs editor
• Organisational recursion · research pass needs editor
• Organizational Systems · curator checked public sources
• Patrick Hoverstadt · curator checked public sources
• Pattern Manual for Service Systems Thinking · curator checked public sources
• Patterns of Strategy · curator checked public sources
• Peter Checkland · curator checked public sources
• Peter H. Jones · independent review not recorded
• Physical exchange with the environment · research pass needs editor
• Positive feedback · research pass needs editor
• Practice: Confrontation Analysis: separate positions, options and credibility · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: Critical social learning: build a learning relationship across boundaries · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: Critical Systems Heuristics: inspect all twelve boundary categories · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: Ethics and power: make an intervention's authority and effects explicit · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: Evaluation and reflexivity: test the claim you are tempted to make · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: Fractal Enterprise Model: alternate processes and the assets they depend on · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: Futures and probes: test robustness without pretending to predict · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: INFORMED Group Dynamics: investigate the distinctions behind a decision · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: Interactive Management: construct a small interpretive structural model · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: Interactive planning: design the service you would choose now · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: Mosaic transformation and bubble strategy: sequence changes you can sustain · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: Multi-methodology: justify the move from one method to another · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: Participative inquiry: test who your evidence leaves out · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: Patterns of Strategy: model dependence, fit and timing · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: Service systems: follow demand and distinguish activity from resolution · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: Socio-Technical Systems: redesign the work and technology together · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: SODA: build a means-ends map without erasing disagreement · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: Soft Systems Methodology: build a model that follows its purpose · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: Syntegration: test the communication structure before the event · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: System Dynamics: build, calculate and challenge a queue model · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: Systemic constellations: use a spatial representation as a hypothesis · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: Systemic conversations: expose inference and repair a broken commitment · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: Systems concepts: make your boundary inspectable · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: Systems laws: test variety, feedback and local optimisation · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: Transposing theory: move up to a pattern and back down · specialist review not recorded
• Practice: Viable System Model: diagnose functions and channels · specialist review not recorded
• Prigogine: order under non-equilibrium conditions (Challoner, 2026) · research pass needs editor
• Purpose · research pass needs editor
• Raul Espejo · curator checked public sources
• Ray Ison · curator checked public sources
• Recursion · research pass needs editor
• Regulation · research pass needs editor
• Requisite inefficiency · curator checked public sources
• Requisite variety · research pass needs editor
• Robert Rosen · independent review not recorded
• Roy Bhaskar · research pass needs editor
• Science and Complexity · research pass needs editor
• SCiO — Systems and Complexity in Organisation · curator checked public sources
• Self-organisation · research pass needs editor
• SenseMaker · curator checked public sources
• Service systems thinking · curator checked public sources
• Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) · curator checked public sources
• Stafford Beer · research pass needs editor
• Steps to an Ecology of Mind · curator checked public sources
• Structural coupling · research pass needs editor
• Structure and agency · research pass needs editor
• Structurelessness · not recorded
• Systemic governance · curator checked public sources
• Systemic Intervention · research pass needs editor
• Systemic systems methods practice for systems practice (alpha) · specialist review not recorded
• Systems Approaches to Making Change · curator checked public sources
• Systems change · curator checked public sources
• Systems Changes · curator checked public sources
• Systems Changes Learning · curator checked public sources
• Systems convening · curator checked public sources
• Systems laws · curator checked public sources
• Systems leadership · curator checked public sources
• Systems lineage documentation · curator checked public sources
• Systems practice · curator checked public sources
• Systems theory · curator checked public sources
• Systems Thinkers · curator checked public sources
• Systems Thinking, Systems Practice · curator checked public sources
• Systems weaving · curator checked public sources
• Technical, semantic, and effectiveness questions · research pass needs editor
• Tektological complex · research pass needs editor
• The Complexity Podcast · not recorded
• The Cynefin Company · curator checked public sources
• The Fractal Organisation Manual · curator checked public sources
• The Grammar of Systems II · curator checked public sources
• The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking · curator checked public sources
• The Mathematical Theory of Communication · research pass needs editor
• The New Dynamics of Strategy · curator checked public sources
• The Noisy Puddle · not recorded
• The Organic Systems Framework · curator checked public sources
• The Transmission of Information · research pass needs editor
• Thinking in Systems · curator checked public sources
• Timothy F. H. Allen · independent review not recorded
• Tony Korycki · curator checked public sources
• Too Damn Close · research pass needs editor
• Transduction · research pass needs editor
• Transduction in Simondon · research pass needs editor
• Typology of sociotechnical transition pathways (2007) · research pass needs editor
• Ultrastability · research pass needs editor
• Understanding Understanding · curator checked public sources
• Unified Theory of Systems Intelligence · provisional self reported unpublished
• Variety · research pass needs editor
• Variety amplification · research pass needs editor
• Variety attenuation · research pass needs editor
• Viability · curator checked public sources
• Viable System Model (VSM) · research pass needs editor
• Viplan · curator checked public sources
• Werner Ulrich · curator checked public sources
• What the boundary cannot carry alone · independent review not recorded