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The English biologist and systems thinker Gregory
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2 See Alexandre de Faria, Quality Management of Development
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4 See Harvard Business Review, January–February 1998, page
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6 See Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Happi-
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For a detailed introduction to systems thinking see
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For an excellent introduction to the science of com-
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