It is a bloody shame how the Da Vinci name could be so abused. Deceitfull shameless bastards. May they drown in their wealth.

Well I guess this is part of the Revelation. Many other religous leaders have fallen in the same way.

Ironically and coincidentally 'uncode' has nothing to do with The Da Vinci Code - just had to make that clear. However I do own the book. When it was first published it sounded interesting so bought it online and had it send to my dad. He read it and wasn't impressed. I though nothing of it. Well he returned the book to me and I still haven't read it, but now the movie is out and Google is promoting it and eventhough I am very curious by nature, I wonder if I could ever be able to cover my eyes and go see it.

Wow! Living in Anticipation explains such an evil that nobody would want to acknowledge it exists. Not only do we train our children to be miserable, we do the same to ourselves. Always hoping, needing more, more, more. When... will my ship come. Read it and weep with me and Vincent Kenny.

I am a little disappointed in Jackson's book "Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers". I was somehow expecting more! However it is a better book than "Creative Problem Solving" and it extends his methodology for Total Systems Intervention by putting it in a even bigger frame and rounding it off with Critical Systems Practice. Yes, it is practical advise, but as he admits in his closing paragraph, it is still very difficult for managers in general to practice the discipline on creative holism by the book. It has to become ingrained in every manager and intuitive (second nature), like Zen.

I doubt that Systems Thinking can self-taught from books alone.

I am currently reading "Rethinking the Fifth Discipline" by Bob Flood, and find it to be a very easy and interesting read. I encourage System Thinkers to read this book after they have read Senge's original Fifth Disciple off course.

I am also going to soon start reading M.C. Jackson's Creative Holism for Managers. It is the most up to date all in one book on Organisational Systems Theory and Systems Thinking.