High Performance Through Understanding Systems

by Bruce McGlothlin

Discusses systems theory and how students can apply it to daily life and to career planning. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823922103
• ISBN13: 9780823922109
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.8" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

A good introduction to systems thinking for the beginner!

This book is targetted primarily at young adults. It provides a quick & good introduction to the complex subject of systems thinking. For a young beginner into systems thinking, this is a good book to start with. The book contains only 64 pages; so it is very easy & quick for the reader to read. The author has done quite a good job to explain systems thinking, in the following systematic manner, with appropriate young adult examples: - what is a system? - what is systems thinking? - understanding systems at school; - understanding systems in work activities; - the connection between systems thinking & your career pursuit; Well-crafted questions are posed by the author at the end of each chapter. These will help the young adult reader to focus, ponder & /or think through prior to personal application. My only complaint about this book, like the other books in the 10-book-The-Learning-a-Living-Library series, is that the photographs used in this book to illustrate key topics are very dull indeed. Even the colour photograph on the front cover is visually disappointing. In this internet age, I am surprised that the publisher is not doing his/her job efficiently. Nevertheless, at the end of the book, the author has included a useful resource bibliography for further reading. Some of the titles listed may be quite challenging for the young adult reader. The other titles worth reading & exploring by young adult readers in the series include the following: - High Performance through Organising Information; - High Performance through Effective Scheduling; - High Performance through Leadership; - High Performance through Self-Management