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.