Paul Van Riper's Recommended Reading

Monitor Talent presents a profile for retired Marine Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper — famous for his role as red team commanders in war games — in which he lists his recommended reading:

• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S, Kuhn
• Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language and Life, Jeremy Campbell
• The Sciences of the Artificial, Herbert A. Simon
• Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
• System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life, Robert Jervis
• Managing as Designing, Richard J. Boland, Jr. and Fred Collopy
• Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Gregory Bateson
• Systems Thinking, Systems Practice, Peter Checkland
• Intuition At Work: Why Developing Your Gut Instincts Will Make You Better At What You Do, Gary Klein
• Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture, Jamshid Gharajedaghi
• The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past, John Gaddis
• Strategy for Chaos: Revolutions in Military Affairs and The Evidence of History, Colin S. Gray

He also lists web-sites:

• ISAAC-EINSTein, An Artificial-Life Approach to Land Combat
• Artificial Life Links
• Systems Dynamics Home Page
• KLI Theory Lab
• Clausewitz Home Page
• The Visual Thesaurus
• The Works of Edward Tufte and Graphics Press