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
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