Anthony Stafford Beer - Literature

Literature

Stafford Beer wrote several books and articles:

• 1959, Cybernetics and Management, English Universities Press
• 1966, Decision and Control, Wiley, London
• 1972, Brain Of The Firm, Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, London, Herder and Herder, USA.Translated into German, Italian, Swedish and French.
• 1974, Designing Freedom, CBC Learning Systems, Toronto, 1974; and John Wiley, London and New York, 1975. Translated into Spanish and Japanese.
• 1975, Platform for Change, John Wiley, London and New York. Reprinted with corrections 1978.
• 1977, Transit; Poems, CWRW Press, Wales. Limited Edition, Private Circulation.
• 1979, The Heart of Enterprise, John Wiley, London and New York. Reprinted with corrections 1988.
• 1981, Brain of the Firm; Second Edition (much extended), John Wiley, London and New York. Reprinted 1986, 1988. Translated into Russian.
• 1983, Transit; Poems, Second edition (much extended). With audio cassettes: Transit – Selected Readings, and one Person Metagame; Mitchell Communications, Publisher, PO Box 2878, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada.
• 1985, Diagnosing the System for Organizations; John Wiley, London and New York. Translated into Italian and Japanese. Reprinted 1988, 1990, 1991.
• 1986, Pebbles to Computer: The Thread; (with Hans Blohm), Oxford University Press, Toronto.
• 1994, Beyond Dispute: The Invention of Team Syntegrity; John Wiley, Chichester.

Audio

• 1990, Stafford Beer, "Forty Years of Cybernetics", Gordon Hyde Memorial Lecture at the Cybernetics Society in London January 1990, audio file: 1hr 27mins.

Video

• 1990, Stafford Beer, The Intelligent Organization Stafford Beer at Monterrey Tec, March 1990 illustrated by Javier Livas

About Stafford Beer

• 1994, Harnden, R and Leonard, A. (Eds.), How Many Grapes Went into the Wine: Stafford Beer on the Art and Science of Holisitic Management; John Wiley, Chichester.
• 2003, Whittaker, David, Stafford Beer: A Personal Memoir; (Includes an interview with Brian Eno) Wavestone Press, Charlbury
• 2006, Jonathan Rosenhead, "IFORS' Operational Research Hall of Fame Stafford Beer", in International Transactions in Operational Research Vol 13, nr.6, pp. 577–581.
• 2009, Whittaker, David, (Ed.) Think Before you Think: Social Complexity and Knowledge of Knowing; (Selected writings of Stafford Beer with life chronology), Foreword by Brian Eno, Wavestone Press, Charlbury